My hope is that everyone reading this column will have had at least some joy over Christmas, warmth, decent food and company but for some Christmas is a mixed blessing.

The Festival of Lights took place in the Bavarian town of Pottenstein on Epiphany. Thousands of fires were lit in the town ...

"The Zweiflers," playing at Jewish film festivals this January, follows a family in the deli business — and the patriarch's ...