Issachar Ber Ryback (2 February 1897, in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire (today Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) – December 22, 1935, in Paris) was a Jewish-Ukrainian-French painter. Rybak was a contemporary of Jewish-Russian artists Natan Issajewitsch Altman, Boris Aronson and Marc Chagall, who transmitted th

Before the One World Trade Center spire dominated the New York City skyline there were the Twin Towers. Every part of the city was a showcase for the towers. Osama bin Laden knew the importance of the towers and how they stood as a symbol of American success and prosperity. September 11, 2001 they b...

We're revisiting the Brief But Spectacular take by choreographer and dancer Stuart Hodes who died last week at the age of 98. Hodes took his first dance lesson at the Martha Graham School after a stint as an aviator in World War II. He was still dancing two years ago when we featured his memoir "Ons...

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, yet the names of close to 2 million remain anonymous. Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has worked tirelessly to collect and commemorate the names of men, women and children who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

Individuals submit hand...

Amazing grace is a song that touches everybody's soul. A song that brings peace, serenity, calmness, humility and joy all at once. This is my Bagpipe version of this wonderful song that sounds hauntingly beautiful on an instrument like Bagpipes infact Amazing grace is most popularly played on Bagpip...

"We Can't Tolerate This Anymore." That's what President Barack Obama told those attending a memorial service Sunday in Newtown, Connecticut, two days after a man shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 26 people -- 20 of them children no older than 7, who would never go on a date, ...

The American fairytale is far from enchanted, argues Matthew Stewart in his June 2018 cover story for The Atlantic. Power and wealth are concentrated in an anxious aristocracy, comprised of 10% of the population, that reigns by dividing the lower classes and pitting them against each other. It’s how

Israel’s population has increased more than tenfold from 806,000 at the country’s establishment in 1948 to approximately 8.842 million today, according to data the Central Bureau of Statistics published this week ahead of the state’s 70th Independence Day.

That number is expected to reach 15.2 mi

Today’s video Google Doodle, illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Loveis Wise and narrated by actor and activist LeVar Burton, honors the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth. Short for “June Nineteenth,” Juneteenth marks the true end of chattel slavery across the United States— which didn’t act

Michelangelo’s David, the colossal marble statue representing the biblical tale of David and Goliath, has become a modern institution. Its craftsmanship, attention to detail and idealized body have captivated audiences for hundreds of years, and it has become a symbol of Renaissance art and the clas