Bayard Rustin, an African American civil rights leader, was a prominent advocate for Israel and condemned the Black Power movement's embrace of the Palestini...

The unlikely relationship between Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and a Buddhist monk from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) named Nyanaponika Thera began in th...

W.H. Auden, a famous poet, had a strong connection to Jewish culture and people. He formed close friendships with Jewish intellectuals in New York City and o...

Philip K. Dick, a popular and influential science fiction writer, was known for his exploration of the idea that our perceived reality is actually an illusio...

During the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic, a Yiddish phrase "Menshen-fresser" (human-eater) emerged in response to the devastating impact of the disease, which...

Philip Glass's Egyptian opera "Akhnaten" is set to be staged at the Metropolitan Opera, marking its American production story, which has been more modest tha...

Ray Charles, accompanied by the Raelettes, visited Israel in the early 1970s for a series of wildly successful concerts where fans cheered them in Jerusalem,...

Recent scholarship and popular interest in Scandinavia have focused on the treatment of Jews during World War II, with Denmark, Sweden, and Norway reassessin...

Reinhold Niebuhr, a prominent Christian theologian, initially supported missionary efforts to convert Jews to Christianity in the 1920s but later abandoned t...

Sholem Asch, a prominent Yiddish writer, stirred controversy with his Christian-themed novels, namely "The Nazarene" and "The Apostle," followed by "Mary." D...