Several decades ago, my wife and I were married under the candlelit chandeliers of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. The congregation’s longtime rabbi, Theodore Lewis, performed the ...

Alexander Payne will preside over the main jury of the upcoming Venice Film Festival. The two-time Oscar winner was last in Venice with “Downsizing” his sci-fi comedy about humans who get ...

Editor’s Note: A new episode of “The Whole Story: “Saving Venice,” a city threatened by rising sea levels and the millions of tourists desperate to visit while they still can, airs Sunday ...

The first thing they do is bring out a bag of bread and olive oil so you can make Motzi.  Then, on the waiter’s suggestion, ...

Minister Itshak Waserlauf (Otzma Yehudit) has announced that he and his colleagues would oppose transferring the management of the historic "Tiferet Yisrael" synagogue to parties that might remove ...

Trial for accused gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre begins The federal jury trial of the suspect in the nation's deadliest antisemitic attack is scheduled to get underway Tuesday morning ...

As one of the most important and visited contemporary architecture exhibitions worldwide, the Venice Architecture Biennale extends beyond the grounds of the Giardini and the Arsenale, aiming to ...

Step through Norman Foster's ‘Gateway to Venice's Waterway' '[We wanted] to provoke a discussion about mobility,' says Foster of the project, which takes the form of a floating pontoon that extends ...

Alexander Payne has been named president of the international jury of the 82nd Venice Film Festival, heading the group who decides winners of the Golden Lion for best film, the two Silver Lions ...

Pavilion of te Kingdom of Bahrain. Photo by Andrea Avezzù . Image Courtesy of 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale The design of the pavilion explores passive cooling using geothermal wells and ...

And so it proves at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, with the installation GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair. This physicality starts with the exterior and a piece called Double Vision, ...