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Devin Naar's life work is saving a dying language called Ladino.

In the middle of Brooklyn's heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park lies a tiny Mexican church, and a small group of children who are growing up curious about their Jewish neighbors.

The new Republican state representative for the Springfield area says she won't always agree with the governor. The local GOP named Sara Wojcicki Jimenez…

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner says a budget deal could take a while longer. Rauner recently addressed a crowd of manufacturers eating lunch in a downtown…

Every year, hundreds of people apply for a chance to volunteer to decorate the White House for the holidays. All 70,000 ornaments and 8,000 snowflakes of it.

Vladimir Sorokin's surreal road trip novel follows a doctor rushing through a blizzard to deliver a vaccine to a zombie-plagued village — but that rich premise is let down by clunky, uneven prose.

This year, the Biennale of Photography is all about "Telling Time" — and it comes at a telling time for the host country of Mali.

Who says Christmas gets all the fun music? Josh Kun, of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, talks the evolution of Hanukkah music — from traditional Hebrew to hits fit for the club.

Forget the Merry Wives of Windsor, NPR's Scott Simon recalls a time when Shakespeare spent the night with a groupie.

Carpenter performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. this week. Scott Simon speaks with the virtuoso musician about his latest tour.