Alex Hershaft’s thesis is a controversial one: that there are undeniable parallels between the Holocaust and the practice of killing animals for food.
The darkness lurking around the edges of heroism is the underlying and faintly troubling theme of Charles Kaiser’s The Cost of Courage, the story of a French family and the steep price its members paid for their work in the Resistance.
The Apostolic Journey of Pope Francis to the U.S. starts hours before Kol Nidre on Tuesday, when he arrives at Joint Base Andrews in the Maryland suburbs. The timing, officials say, could not be avoided.
A note from editor and publisher Nadine Epstein.
There is a seeming transparency in the prose of On the Move, the late Oliver Sacks’s memoir about leaving home and the divergent, sometimes vagabond, life he made.
David Gregory talks interfaith marriage, Shabbat martinis, and what’s next.
Daniel Byman, director of research and a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, on the roots of Jewish terrorism and what can be done to address it.
The outreach since April has included a stream of conference calls and meetings.
Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram recalls her role in the civil rights movement on the 50-year anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
