Analysis | Chutzpah Gone Viral: Why Israel Produces So Many Cyber Leaders
Compulsory military service, a rarity among Western states today, may be the single most important source of Israel’s cyber prowess.
If These Walls Could Talk: Columbia’s Hamilton Hall—1968-2024 with Glenn Frankel, Robert Siegel, Susan Rubin Suleiman and Amy E. Schwartz
Join Glenn Frankel, Robert Siegel and Susan Rubin Suleiman as they discuss the similarities and differences between the 1968 and 2024 protests, from divisions within the student body and faculty to free speech vs. radicalization to the construction and destruction of barricades to the food!
Opinion | Why I Cannot Celebrate Mother’s Day 2024 in New York City
I have no doubt that the sweaty, swaying kids on campus believed that they had found their Vietnam. Too bad their Vietnam was my 1932 Reichstag elections.
Interview | Aviva Kempner’s ‘A Pocketful of Miracles’
Aviva Kempner’s latest film details how her mother and uncle survived the Holocaust and ultimately found success in America after the war.
The Muses of October 7
A new exhibit at the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, seeks to explore creativity in the midst of tragedy and war.
Five Players in the Campus Protest Showdown
Who’s seizing the moment of U.S. campus protests against Gaza war, who’s holding the key, who’s the tragic hero, favorite villain and more.
Opinion | Silencing Criticism in the Name of Antisemitism Awareness
Passing the Antisemitism Awareness Act in response to students protesting the war in Gaza is a cynical, or at best naïve move says Professor Omer Bartov.
Is McCarthyism Alive and Well on Capitol Hill?
For those who are used to hearing McCarthyism thrown around as a generalized term of abuse, it may be worth looking back at the details of that time.
Israel Today: A Wide-Open Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi and Amy E. Schwartz
Join Yossi Klein Halevi for a conversation about what’s happening inside Israel right now: from a contentious government to a divided people and more.
Verdi’s Nabucco in the Aftermath of October 7
Watching Verdi’s Nabucco and its story of Jewish persecution and pervasive violence against a Jewish community in exile may as well have been taken from recent headlines.
Jewish and Palestinian Teens Write—and Brave the United States—Together
Digital Editor Noah Phillips discovered that the six Israeli teenagers’ biggest fear was facing polarization in the United States.
A Jewish Activist Remembers Surviving a Bombing Raid in Nazi Germany
“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.