The recent entirely homegrown Israeli Opera production of Handel’s Alcina, named after a sorceress queen, is at the same time periodically musically enchanting, yet on the whole more bewildering than bewitching

The last holiday of the Jewish calendar is celebrated as the day the Jewish people received the Torah, as marking the wheat harvest, and as the birth of the Christian church

Farmer Bashir says Palestinian Authority provides no help after halting animal vaccination program while others warn settlers might attempt to grab land vacated by flocks to set up illegal outposts