Students of all grade levels at Manorhaven Elementary School in Port Washington kept a 26-year-old tradition alive with a variety of hands-on activities during Cultural Studies Week. The country of ...

Last week’s shooting at a wood-processing plant in Menznau, Switzerland, which left four people — including the shooter — dead and six others injured, is fueling a recurring debate about the country’s ...

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world yet also boasts an eviably low crime rate. In 2018, the Swiss authorities recorded 50 murders and 149 attempted murders, with ...

Even as the gun-control debate rises again in the U.S. in the aftermath of the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the gun-loving Swiss are not about to lay down their arms. Guns are ...

Nurturing What We Have] In early June, the Seeds4All project team was invited by artist Alexandra Baumgartner to contribute ...

18 Miles northwest of Zurich are two shtetls whose homes, synagogues and cemetery survived World War II. And yet, they’re Jewish ghost towns. Only a vanishingly small number of the villages’ once ...

Whether you’re after palm-lined lakeshores or sparkling glaciers, medieval villages or Alpine peaks, Switzerland’s roads ...

Two couples who moved to Aarwangen, Switzerland, complained that cowbells kept them up all night. But longtime residents were outraged and started a petition to preserve the cowbells. The residents ...

Experience the beauty of Gimmelwald, Switzerland – a peaceful alpine retreat in the heart of the Bernese Oberland. With ...

Walking high above Gimmelwald, my favorite Swiss village, with Olle, who teaches in the village school, I always feel like a wide-eyed student. We meet a massive cow loitering atop a fairy tale ridge, ...

Nancy Holten, 42, was born in the Netherlands. At the age of 8, however, she moved with her family to Switzerland, which Holten has called home for the past 34 years. Holten currently resides, with ...