While there must be no dismissal or flippancy about the killing of Israelis, there is a need to put this series of attacks into its proper perspective. ...
President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday in the context of a new reality: that a two-state solution will not be negotiated on his watch. ...
After facing controversy, Washington DC's Theater J has a new leader. ...

by Emily Shwake Jeffrey Herf is a professor of modern European intellectual history at the University of Maryland. He has

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This month’s release of Live at Stubb’s Vol. III marks 10 years in the limelight for Matisyahu, the American Jewish reggae rapping sensation. But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for the man his fans commonly refer to as Matis. ...

by Laura Davis In March of 2014, during a meeting at her synagogue in Lexington, Massachusetts, Linda K. Wertheimer heard

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by George E. Johnson The conventional wisdom in American Jewish life is that the next generation of Jewish adults is

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by Emily Shwake The first thing Ilan Berman told the crowd was: “You do not want to read this book.”

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This year’s Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference includes an exhibition of the work of Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk. A contemporary of Chagall, Szyk was largely forgotten in the decades immediately following WWII, but may now be ideally positioned to serve as bridge for continuing Jewish-Christian dialogue on the Holocaust and ...
Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, on how the violence began and what can be done to quell it. ...

by Laura Davis and Emily Shwake Since the original outbreak of fighting in March of 2011, nearly 4 million Syrians

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In this Q&A, Moshe Maoz, professor emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem —

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