New York City’s annual Israel Day Parade marched up Fifth Avenue on Sunday, May 31, with tens of thousands of people turning out for what organizers called one of the  largest parades in the event’s history, a public show of Jewish solidarity when anti-semitism is rising around the world. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Attorney General Letitia James, former mayors Eric Adams and Michael Bloomberg, and a long list of officials marched to underscore [...]

The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon. The artwork was acquired in Paris for Adolf Hitler, one of countless works swept up in the Nazi plunder. In May, the piece went on permanent display in a new room at the city’s Musée d’Orsay as part of France’s reckoning with Nazi-era looting. The gallery is given over to the orphaned masterpieces of [...]

On an unseasonably warm Friday evening, 40 people gathered for a Kabbalat Shabbat service in a grove of redwoods and California live oaks. A group of musicians led the congregation in singing Hebrew tunes as an owl made his presence known from above. The service was part of Makom Shalom, a forest shul that launched during the High Holidays last year and has grown to 83 adult members. Rabbi Zelig Golden leads the nondenominational congregation in [...]