On the sixteenth day of the war, I found hope in an underground parking garage. ...
As chief historian at Yad Vashem from 2011 to 2021, and now the institution’s senior academic advisor, Dina Porat has the chops—the moral authority, if you will—to poke into dark and troubling corners of the Israeli national psyche. ...
It’s a truism of geopolitics that disorder somewhere breeds disorder elsewhere. ...
In South Dakota, Jewish homesteaders made their fortune on land the Lakota Nation once called home. One of their descendants explores what a process of repair and repentance might look like. ...
Since October 7 and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war, the word genocide has been used liberally by parties on both sides of the conflict. ...
I am always amazed at the power of one violent act to upend the fragile progress of humanity—in particular the painstaking work of constructing peace. ...
The news that President Carter’s United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the mostly Jewish residents of the new high-rise condominiums along southern Florida’s Gold Coast. ...
Allegra, you’ve described your work as post-ethnic, post-deli Judaism—“Jewish life beyond Roth and Bellow, Woody Allen, and bagels and lox.”
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A remarkable and rare pair of elaborate silver Torah finials have been jointly acquired by New York’s Jewish Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. ...
Peering into the jar, I can see the little brown heads, eyes, bodies and wings of about 30 dried locusts. ...
Not strictly Ortho-locks. ...
The terebinth tree in the Arava is at least a thousand years old, as was her mother before her. ...