In crisis or in calm, the citizens of Berlin like to go to the opera, and they like to go in style. Since the war, though, the only suitable house in the city has been the ancient Staatsoper on Unter ...

What good is prayer? It’s a question many are asking after Sunday’s mass shooting at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Grand Blanc, Mich. And it’s easy to see why. The phrase “thoughts ...

Houston – Beneath the busy underpass at Milam and I-45 in Midtown, what was once just concrete now bursts with color. It’s one of six art installations that are part of a public art project called ...

“Jews praying at the Wailing Wall” by Carl Friedrich Werner 1863. יב וַיֹּאמֶר, אַל-תִּשְׁלַח יָדְךָ אֶל-הַנַּעַר, וְאַל-תַּעַשׂ לוֹ, מְאוּמָה: כִּי עַתָּה ...

Ann Bauer writes in her beautiful Sept. 15 letter that she’s “no good” at prayer. She shouldn’t be too discouraged with that struggle—some of the greatest saints have suffered in the same way. The ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem today, Sunday, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He arrives in Israel as part of a tour that will later take ...

Ernest Bloch’s symphony Israel, as played last week by the Cleveland Orchestra in Manhattan, was full of the woes of “a pious and sinful people.” Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, ...