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Fresh Princess
Her New York shows draw blacks and observant Jews, who come to hear her rap on race, religion and sex. Meet Vanessa Hidary. More...

Arts: Digital Digging
A skeptical archaeologist uses state-of-the-art technologyto reconstruct a long-forgotten synagogue in the Golan More...

Cover Story -- Abstract: Tony Kushner, A Soul on Fire
With a new musical, �Caroline, or Change,� about to premiere on Broadway, following the stunning TV broadcast of his epic �Angels in America,� Tony Kushner is at the peak of his popularity -- but America�s favorite gay, socialist, Jewish playwright is not easing up: He�s still letting loose on God, Israel, gay rights, abortion and a whole lot more, with an impolitic, provocative and uniquely Jewish sensibility. More...

Arts: This Lamp Is My Lamp
A Hanukkah concert by the Klezmatics reveals the startling Jewish side of Woody Guthrie. More...

Arts: Father Figured
Nathaniel Kahn finally got to know his father, the remarkable architect Louis Kahn, only when he made a movie about him More...

Arts: �From the Desert, from a Faraway Land�
It all started when Idan Reichel bought a simple music-recording program for his PC. Reichel was 23 years old, a year out of the army, and living at home with his parents in Kfar Saba. He set up his computer in the basement and began inviting people over to record Hebrew and Amharic songs, instrumentals, love letters and even portions of the Bible. More...

Arts: View from the Balcony
The success in Boston of a play about Golda Meir illustrates the gap between how the late premier is remembered in the U.S. and in the country she served, and -- in the opinion of many -- failed More...

Arts: A Beautiful Twisted Mind
No one was more surprised than horror master David Cronenberg when he realized, during filming of his new feature, �Spider,� that the title character had to be Jewish More...

Arts: To Be Young, Gifted and -- a Jewish Rapper
Ross Filler, better known as Remedy, and other Jewish hip-hop artists, are enjoying massive success, infusing the Holocaust and Hamas into their lyrics. But they�re still the exception to the rule. More...

Arts: Painting the Hate
Schwebel, known for his juxtaposition of the Biblical and the modern in his oeuvre, feels compelled to relate to the violence raging around him More...

Arts: An Enduring Lament
Sixty years later, a Jewish writer�s song of African-American lynching victims receives a multimedia renaissance. More...

The Prodigy with His Shirt Out
Jazz liberates an autistic 10-year-old More...

Art or Aerobics?
Catchy tunes and techno steps are turning the fond and familiar world of Israeli folk dancing upside down More...

The Kindness of Strangers
A crumbling Argentina is the backdrop for a touching film about the coming-of-age of a Jewish searcher More...

The Best of Both Worlds
In Henry Bean's indie film 'The Believer,' skinhead Danny Balint manages to strike a balance between Jewish pride and militant anti-Semitism. Perhaps that's why distributors are keeping their distance from the movie. More...

Caught by His Roots
He's one of France's most successful TV producers, his country's Steven Bochco. And now, at 70, Pierre Grimblat is also a self-proclaimed 'new Jew.' More...

The Mother of All Purimspielen
As a new rebbe assumes leadership of the Bobover sect, his hasidim plan to greet him with the type of Purim extravaganza that's been their specialty for half a century More...

Dawn in the Garden of Good and Evil
An Adam and Eve tale in which the fall of man involves far more than eating an apple is the basis for a new, Hebrew grand opera - and it's a hit More...

Time of Suffering
U.S.-born director Joseph Cedar's first movie nabbed all the top awards at the Israeli 'Oscars,' and now is primed to conquer America More...

When Friends Collide
Jan Wiener and Arnost Lustig didn�t know, when they agreed to star in a film together, that it would spell the end of their relationship More...

Old Shuls Never Die
(September 25, 2000) An enterprising Jerusalem couple have devoted 12 years and all their savings to documenting the defunct synagogues of Central Europe More...

A Hill and Its King
After 18 years of digging, led by one of Israel�s most determined archaeologists, a site in the West Bank that could reveal a wealth of information about the Second Temple opens to the public More...

Moses� Dealer
(July 31, 2000) A 19th-century antiquities merchant, whose outrageous forgeries fooled most of the people most of the time, gets another viewing More...

Surfing the Wind
(May 22, 2000) Working by hand, and inspired by the planets, a craftsman in Northern Galilee is fashioning a highly successful cottage industry out of chimes More...

Going Full Circle with Wagner
(May 22, 2000) A yeshivah-educated opera director thinks the Rhine Gold came from Jewish victims More...

I Confess!
(April 10, 2000) Ricki, Jerry and Oprah, move over. Israel now has its own homegrown daily diet of pour-your-heart-out TV More...

How Gray Was My Valley
(March 27, 2000) It's a Welsh-Yiddish `Romeo and Juliet' - and it's up for an Oscar More...

Hersh Does Gersh
(March 13, 2000) How a chance meeting with a Holocaust survivor, who said that �Rhapsody in Blue� saved his life, inspired Hershey Felder to bring the story of the �unknown� George Gershwin to the stage More...

The Master of Small-Screen Ambivalence
(February 28, 2000) The co-creator of �thirtysomething� and now �Once and Again,� Marshall Herskovitz, is happy to fill his own little creative TV niche More...

Tensions Mount
(January 3, 2000) Just in time for the millennium and Ramadan, Israelis and Palestinians face off over Muslim excavation work on the ultra-sensitive Temple Mount More...

Killing the Competition
(October 22, 1999) Control of Israel�s media is concentrated in the hands of a small number of owners, one of whom, Ofer Nimrodi, may have gone too far in his efforts to win More...

Trying to Kosher Wagner
(October 25, 1999) A leading expert on the composer�s anti-Semitism and its link to Nazism describes a unique meeting in Bavaria between �pro-Wagner� and �anti-Wagner� forces. His conclusion: There�s a lot of denial still going on at Bayreuth. More...

Making It Look Effortless
(July 19, 1999)Opera critics are putting their money on hunky rising star Richard Bernstein More...

Hoping for Surprises
(June 21, 1999) Chava Alberstein says she has no strategy for her career; fortunately, her instincts keep taking her in the right direction More...