Danna Harman

As U.S. universities hold first-ever undergraduate fair in Israel, figures show that more and more local students are interested, despite the obstacles, and that the universities do more to reach out to them.

As Hadassah celebrates its centennial in Jerusalem, a few of its veteran members also come of age.

Members of the British Parliament come to Ashdod for a little cricket and culture.

Two men from the former Soviet Union find themselves and each other in Israel.

Long Island native Miriam Schler, motivated by her youth movement experience, passed on a career in law to develop the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center.

It started slowly, with just a friendship. Then love took over. But there are some things that even love can’t conquer.

The Church of Scientology opened its gleaming new center in Jaffa with great fanfare last month. But the notoriously secretive organization does not appreciate when its members ask too many questions, as some have found out.

An Israeli skipper and an American Olympic sailor fall in love on a tropical island.

Fellow diplomats, who knew Stevens from the years he served at the Jerusalem Consulate, attested to his deep connection to and respect for Islam and the Arab world.

S grew up running through the fields surrounding his parent's home in Elkana, a settlement in the West Bank. Karin 'likes camping', but would prefer a hotel room. How did their love blossom?

Among the paddle-ball wheeling aficionados of Israel's favorite sport are a band of serious diehards, who harbor fantasies of their game one day gaining the international respect it deserves.

An African Baha'i meets an American faithful who was always drawn by the call of faraway lands.

Aussie fitness guru Rella Itin is taking Israeli women, and a few men, back to basic training in the name of fitness and even a little fun.

A New Year's kiss ignites a mid-life romance between a former Israeli rocker and a Beverly Hills transplant.

Tel Aviv’s most popular pool was once a historic watering hole for the great and the good of the city. Recently renovated, it has recaptured its iconic mix of easy socializing, beachfront leisure, and that famous chilled, salty water.

After an assiduous courtship, a homely Jerusalem bar owner won the woman of his dreams.

Moshe Kaplan, a native New Jersey doctor with a holistic attitude toward life, says Israel needs more decency, more nobility of character, more integrity, and more actions based on a sense of what is right.

In a tale as old as Birthright, American girl meets Israeli soldier and stays.

The Indian-born conductor, who has been leading Israel's symphony orchestra for more than 40 years, talks Wagner, boycotts and classical music in China.

An Israeli photographer woos an Australian scientist with promises of doing the dishes forever - and gets her to stick around.

At this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival, several such young filmmakers presented documentaries on the Holocaust which managed to look at the subject with original eyes.

WATCH: Filmmaker Arik Bernstein has rescued hundreds of collections of old home movies to paint a multifaceted picture of 20th-century Israel - as caught on tape by everyday people.

Love of movies led Lia Van Leer to found the Jerusalem Film Festival, which opened last week for the 29th time.

Serial activist Russell Simmons and Rabbi Marc Schneier make an unlikely pair. But they have faith.

Raw stories unfold in the documentaries shown at the Cinema South Festival.