They are doing Rachel in Rio, Lamdi Oti in London, Dira 26 in Dimona and Biladaich in Boston. Israeli folk dancing is all the rage, and is possible almost any night of the week here in Los Angeles.

YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge ...

In 1924 there was just one Israeli folk dance, “Hora Agadati,” created in Tel Aviv. Within a year of gaining statehood, Israel could boast 75 folk dances. And by 2005 there were 4,678, according to ...

British history books usually begin with Julius Caesar and the Roman invasion of BCE 55, because the people who lived in our country before the Romans kept no written records. This has always been a ...

That complicated history — wholesale murder, but also the music and dance and well-lived lives that came before and also are lodged in descendants’ memories — was part of the lure of a trip that Jim ...

In the vibrant folk landscape of central India, few cultural expressions carry the spiritual fervor and social resonance of ...