Social media had some wounding snippets of news this week: a bridegroom cruelly trolled for being dark, young people ...

On the first night of Hanukkah, I learned that Eli Schlanger, a rabbi I had known for decades, was gunned down at a Hanukkah ...

In 1434, a lightning strike shattered a stupa in Chiang Rai, revealing a luminous green statue — the Emerald Buddha. Over the next centuries, this single object would be captured, moved, hidden, and ...

The early American settlers realized very quickly that the success of their community was not a solo performance.

Readers discuss an essay by Anand Giridharadas about Jeffrey Epstein’s circle. Also: The White House ballroom; Medicare for ...

Two parents of seventh-graders in the Watertown City School District have filed a federal lawsuit against the district claiming their children were exposed to pornographic and sexually explicit ...

In the first instance, 124 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War were beatified in a celebration presided over by Cardinal ...

He may not have won a race this year, but Kyle Busch somehow ended up winning at the only place that matters—life outside the ...

In the Arthur Avenue section of the Bronx, where I grew up, the months of June and July were the season of le feste, or “the feasts.” When the feasts were in full swing, several city blocks were ...

Hal Steinbrenner seemed to suggest that the Yankees are not making a profit. When a question was asked about the Yankees making more than $700 million in revenue and if it's fair to assume he's making ...

Read brussels-beat on The Wall Street Journal ...

We all have miracles in our lives, and they happen every day. When I first began to study medicine, the intricacies of the human body and how it functions declared itself to me as one of G-d’s ...