You do not have to be Jewish to love Israeli folk dancing. Jim Rust isn’t, and he’s been teaching a weekly class for 14 years. The unnamed group, formerly the Buffalo Grove Israeli Folk Dance Group, ...

A complex 20th-century history allowed for few outside influences, but Israeli folk dances left a lasting impact. For many of these locals, the dances are familiar, almost second nature. All over the ...

These days, most conversations about Israel have to do with politics alone, but there was once a time that young American Jews, particularly in New York, were as conversant about Israeli music and ...

Some Israeli folk dances are based on musical traditions from all over the world that are centuries old, but the dances also continue to evolve as today’s participants keep adding new music and new ...

What makes a dance Jewish? To answer this question, you have to identify the similarities between the ecstatic, joyful round dances of the Hasidim and the politically-inspired, modernist choreography ...

One of my favorite places to go as a reporter is the Clelian Adult Day Care Center in Hamden, a homey place run by the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Mount Sacred Heart. I've often joked ...

For Haim Milshtein, running folk-dancing programs is a passion—and a comfort. Photo credit: Hillel Kuttler. Haim Milshtein stepped around the table hosting his laptop, side-stepping the wires running ...

As promised in my previous column, I am trying to undertake a new Jewish experience for every month of 2019. My first bucket list item, for January, was Israeli folk dancing with Orly Star at the ...

Here are images of Jewish bodies in motion: Hasidic men dancing the “bottle dance”; kibbutzniks in the 1940s dancing in a celebration of Chag Ha’Bikkurim (Festival of the First Fruits); Kurdish elders ...

What connects Jaipur and Jerusalem? Delhi and Tel Aviv? Hyderabad and Haifa? India and Israel share strong military and strategic ties and are important trade partners, but another connection is ...

In the world of video games, the journey ahead might last days or it might last just a few hours, but the soundtracks to those passing hours are often so integral to the game — and steeped in the ...