Ever since I was a child, I have been terrified of rooms full of children — a strange trait for a Hebrew-school teacher. Yes, I adore kids one-on-one, but large groups of them scare me. I thought this ...

“To travel to so many places in the world and to communicate through my music, this is one of the greatest things I could imagine,” Israeli singer-songwriter Victoria Hanna said. As a child, Hanna ...