Israel’s Katrina
By Gabriel Weinstein
After last week’s forest fire, the Carmel region in Northern Israel’s once emerald forests and fields have become a barren prairie of charred...
An Ancient Synagogue in Damascus
By Samantha Sisskind
If you go to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City in Damascus, Syria, you’ll find hardly any obvious traces of Jewish life. ...
The Secret History of Hanukkah
By Gabriel Weinstein
Students in Hebrew schools and Jewish day schools learn that Hanukkah is the celebration of the Maccabees’ improbable military triumph and the miraculous...
The Heart of the Jewish People
By Doni Kandel
Living in the Old City of Jerusalem for eighteen months was enough for me. While I'm eternally appreciative of Jerusalem, it is loud...
People of the Book: The Finkler Question and the New Anti-Semitism
by Daniel Kieval
In Howard Jacobson's Booker-prize winning novel, The Finkler Question, Jewish residents of London are increasingly alarmed by the growing number of anti-Semitic attacks...
The Catholic Church Changes Gears on Interfaith Relations
By Gabriel Weinstein
Last week a group of twenty cantors from the American Conference of Cantors (ACC) serenaded Catholic officials in Rome with rousing renditions of...
The Human Touch
By Merav Levkowitz
Tuesday (November 9th) marked seventy-two years since Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass,” which marked the beginning of the Holocaust in Germany. The...
The Fallen Kibbutz: A Microcosm of Israeli Society
By Lily Hoffman Simon
This year marked the centennial birthday of the Kibbutz. However, the structure of these unique societal experiments has changed so dramatically that,...
Yitzhak Rabin: 15 Years Later
In a moving column in The New York Times, President Bill Clinton pays tribute to slain Israeli Prime Minister and peacemaker Yitzhak Rabin. "I continue to believe...
The De-Militarized Zone: Politics and Religion in the Middle East
By Samantha Sisskind
AMMAN, JORDAN – The swastika and anti-Israel graffiti spray-painted on the wall of a church parking lot I pass on the way to my school...
It’s cheese! It’s mustard! It’s…a knish?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
If you happened to be walking down Second Avenue in New York’s East Village last Sunday afternoon, you might have seen an...
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
Four car bombs exploded in front of Shiite mosques in Baghdad this morning, killing 39 people and wounding 54.
The Rabbinical Council of America...