It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Israel’s bombing transformed Gaza into a rubble-strewn disaster zone, complicating efforts to rebuild.