It’s 2 a.m., and there’s a crowd on St. Peter’s Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter; people are waiting to see the Stanton Moore Trio play Preservation Hall. Midnight and early morning shows during Jazzfest are part of a new tradition initiated by Benjamin Jaffe, Preservation Hall’s creative director, the man charged with safeguarding New […]

What does it mean to be a Jew in a Post-Zionist world? For centuries, for Jews, the notion of living free in Zion was a dream. In Theodor Herzl’s famous essay, “The Jewish State,” the journalist and playwright transformed the dream of living in a Jewish state into a goal. “Next year in Jerusalem,” the […]