Three core members of New Haven’s Nu Haven Kapelye community orchestra — bassist David Chevan, accordionist Dana Astmann, clarinetist Will Bartlett — were performing a mix of Hanukkah and traditional ...

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French sociologist Olivier Roy describes a process he calls “deculturation,” where globalization and societal shifts erode specific elements of ethnic, class, religious and regional ... Franco Moretti ...

Before there was Christmas, there was the Viking winter solstice celebration known as Yule. Many raucous traditions from this ...

The recent election outcome “actually gives religion, in general, a lot more standing in schools,” Greg Kmetz, a Republican ...