by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic Guess who’s coming to dinner? The machetunim. That’s the Yiddish word you’ll probably use soon
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For Gary Paul Nabhan, spices tell a story that goes far beyond “Add two teaspoons of cinnamon.” The chair in
...by Melissa Suran She lights the Shabbat candles in the dining room, where there is a picture her brother Manfred
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by Jay Neugeboren When the American Psychiatric Association’s newly revised 1,000-page “bible of psychiatry,” The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
...by Izak Dimenstein By the irony of fate, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, the 1940 book that influenced the outcome of
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Sheldon Adelson, the owner of Israel’s free daily newspaper Israel Hayom, spoke out against a new bill in the Knesset that
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by Sarah Kreimer The taxi drove off, and I wondered if we had come to the right place. Footsteps crunching
...by Melvin Dow Considering the numerous reviews written from divergent viewpoints, one might reasonably conclude that everything worth saying about
...by Darren Pinsker When the Israeli writer Haim Hazaz died in 1973, his reputation was so lofty in the world
...In our March/April issue, we explore the thorny and ever-present issue of anti-Semitism: Where does it come from? Why does
...In our March/April issue, we examine two big questions with deep contemporary resonance: Where does anti-Semitism come from? Why does
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