Muscular. Courageous. Bronzed. The stereotype of the sun-kissed sabra is Ari ben Canaan, as played by actor Paul Newman in the 1960 movie Exodus. The word sabra stems from the name of the prickly pear cactus—tzabar in Hebrew and sabr in Arabic—whose thick thorny skin covers a sweet and succulent ...
I read Les Misérables when I was 25, studying at the London School of Economics. I was searching for my path. I’d spent several years as a journalist and was considering trying to make a go of it as a foreign correspondent. ...
Cholent as we know it today—a slow-cooking stew most commonly comprised of potatoes, barley, beans and beef—likely got its start in the late 12th or early 13th century, according to Gil Marks, author of Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. ...

Independent Being pro-Israel today means being ever so cautious about what you read in the biased media about Israel. At

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In honor of the Academy Awards, Moment looks back at some “Jewish” Best Picture winners of yesteryear. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) The

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By Eileen Lavine Muscular. Courageous. Bronzed. The stereotype of the sun-kissed sabra is Ari ben Canaan, as played by actor

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By Jeffrey Rosen Of all the issues that could be significant in the 2012 presidential election, the future of church-state

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Similarities between Judaism and Islam are easy to see. Both are monotheistic religions for whom the Lord is One. Both are religions based on revelation. In both, law is central, and personal and social existence is governed by a divinely ordained legal system. There are also many obvious parallels between ...
Elections are in the air—and not just in the United States. In December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for early primaries in his Likud Party, a likely indicator that he may dissolve the Knesset sometime in 2012 and call a general election. The ball has begun to roll. ...

One bill in the Knesset is aimed at keeping human rights groups from filing suit before Israel’s Supreme Court. Another

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Not long ago, my eldest granddaughter celebrated her bat mitzvah—two months shy of 60 years after I celebrated mine. I

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My mother, Ruth Epstein, now nearly 87, worked her way up from volunteer to executive director at our Jewish Community

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