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November 11, 2009, 6:59 AM / The observance of Veterans Day evokes memories of my long trail from the Soviet Gulag.

Use the comment link below: Russia has sparked outrage after simulating a nuclear air and sea attack on Poland during military exercises.

No military police expected in New York : Wormwood Few theatrical premieres have been as politically charged as Wormwood's 1985 opening in Poland .

For photographer Victor Friedman, art is instinctive. For 45 years, Mr. Friedman has been capturing images of life in the neighborhoods he has been touched by - around Long Island, where he spends most of his week in his Shelter Island home; New York City, where he grew up and now lives and works for part of the week; and Brooklyn, where he felt ...

Years ago, I was about to pay for a shirt when, out of the blue, a Manhattan store clerk yelled at me: "Go back to Africa .

At first it seems like an anomaly. You walk up to the campus entrance from the enormous parking lot that defines Queensborough Community College as a commuting institution, and the first structure that greets you, just before the administration building, is the new Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Research Center and Archives.

It was a five-tractor salute Wednesday for a man who lived most of his life in a small town, but made quite a big impression on the lives of many.

An Argentine diva is accused of creating a drama of operatic proportions at a Manhattan cafe.

The U.S. violin virtuoso Joshua Bell helped raise funds Wednesday for a Jewish History museum in Poland with a charity concert at Warsaw's Opera House.

Caption: Pictured from left to right are Ashley Ritter, Court Appointed Special Advocate Coordinator, Lesley Green, Child Advocate Program Coordinator, Melisa Bonser and Helen Kennison.

MOSCOW If Hillary Clinton was hoping to win Russian support for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday.

Bella Buscarino, a sophomore at Buffalo Seminary, describes the realization that she could ride a bicycle without help as the "best feeling ever ... you just feel free." Today Bella knows that she can ride a bike, but the feeling of independence, of "being in control" that she has when she is on a bicycle is something she still enjoys.

It's been 31 years since Baruch Silverstein hit the pavement to run a marathon. But fitness goals weren't the only driving factor behind his decision to sign up for the prestigious New York City race in November.

At 82, 'Jack the Hack' Dym is hanging up his license after serving as a cab driver in New York for 62 years and 2 million miles of driving.

Dave Brubeck, left, and Joao Carlos Martins at the pianos. Blog The Del Sol String Quartet at Symphony Space on Thursday.

Star composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on Thursday announced a long-awaited sequel to his massively successful "Phantom of the Opera," one of the world's best loved and longest running musicals.

HOBBY'S DELICATESSEN & RESTAURANT in downtown Newark may have lost much of its more traditional clientele over the years, but it has held on to tradition.

Grade: Senior Gaylen Sinclair, 17, is the daughter of Tom and Julie Sinclair and has an older brother in the Peace Corps.

"We're Jews. We have that well of tradition to draw on," Larry Gopnik's cousin consoles him in A Serious Man.

The matter of Roman Polanski , film director and fugitive from conviction for forcing sex on a 13-year-old girl, has been followed carefully in Harlem by Rachel Lloyd.