Bollywood filmmakers are visiting Israel to make connections and scout locations during the Jerusalem International Film Festival.

Prolific and influential graphic designer and Vanity Fair caricaturist Paolo Garretto was once a member of Mussolini’s bodyguards.

A collection of Jewish Iraqi books discovered in a basement used by Saddam Hussein’s secret police and recovered during the 2003 invasion of Iraq is now the subject of dispute between the Iraqi and American governments.

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Is Richard Feynman a genuine scientific superstar?

JDub Records is closing. Here’s the official statement.

Marta Kauffman, creator of the sitcom “Friends,” and Roberta Grossman, a documentary filmmaker, are getting together to make a movie about the history of “Hava Nagilah.”

Kenneth Sherman calls attention to Yuri Suhl’s “One Foot in America,” a long-neglected, recently reissued novel of the immigrant experience.

Adam Kirsch reviews “Réne Blum and the Ballets Russes,” a new biography about the elusive French Jewish ballet impresario.

A new piece of software is shedding new light on the authorship of the Bible.

How both Bobby Fischer and Isaac Newton create difficulties for biographers.

Remembering Yavneh, a pioneering Modern Orthodox student organization.

Hundreds of once-lost photos of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s have been discovered and are on display.

Street art meets the spiritual at a Brooklyn art show.

How André Aciman’s writing on New York rivals that of E.B. White.

Theodore Roszak, author of “The Making of a Counter Culture,” has died at age 77.