Rachel Cockerell's debut book "Melting Point" delves into her family's history intertwined with the largely forgotten episode of the Galveston Movement, where thousands of persecuted Russian Jews were sent to Galveston, Texas as a temporary Jewish homeland in the early 1900s.

Artist and illustrator Maira Kalman's exhibition at the Mary Ryan Gallery features gouache paintings, including a detailed image of E.F. Benson's garden room destroyed during WWII.

The text discusses the historical prominence of Jewish revolutionaries from the 19th to the mid-20th century, mentioning figures like Zalkind Hourwitz, Rosa Luxemburg, and Leon Trotsky.