Culture

Why one NBA team’s president is its MVP

Peter Feigin, the brash New Yorker running the Milwaukee Bucks, is making strides in backing his lofty promises about the club and its Midwestern city.

Jewish group asks why Hollywood loves characters with disabilities on screen, but not on set

The push is on to have films and TV shows cast and hire those with disabilities.

How a Protestant New Yorker Smuggled Marc Chagall and Hannah Arendt Out of Nazi France

In 1994, a man whose later years were spent as a high school Latin teacher was recognized by Yad Vashem as a righteous among the nations. In 1935, it turns out, Mr. Varian Fry traveled to Berlin to report on the German government’s banning of all non-Aryans from military service and the criminalization of homosexuality. […]