It is easy to find love in a beautiful place. But to find love in the shadow of death is most remarkable. And remarkable were the young Jews who, caught in the Holocaust, held onto life in ghettos, forests, transit camps, slave labor camps and...
Welcome NPR listeners! The Deep is our upcoming podcast about the books that inspired us as young people. Stay tuned for our extended conversation about A Wrinkle in Time between editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein and astronomer Emily Levesque. If you missed the All Things Considered story, you can find it here....
It’s been 23 years since Adam Sandler first performed “The Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live in 1994. ...
“As we try to stand up for facts and truth and decency, we in the media need to make sure that we don't give ammunition to those who are seeking to undermine the credibility of the press," CNN’s Jake Tapper said Sunday when accepting Moment's...
Dipping into the hate within us can give us an intense buzz that may make us feel more alive, but hating is also an easy way to dismiss, diminish and dehumanize the other. Love can also make us feel alive—without the negative effects,...
Profile Simon Schama Steals the Show The effusive British historian and master storyteller returns for part two of the history of the Jewish people. by Liam Hoare Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Strangers in their own land The end of the long civil war between Sri Lanka’s Buddhists and Tamils...
New York, NY – Bnai Zion Foundation, which supports humanitarian projects in Israel that improve the lives of thousands in need, will host a Women in Leadership cocktail reception and networking event on Thursday, September 14th, 2017 at 6:30pm. The evening will feature special guests:...
[divider] Culture Who’s Afraid of Dorit Rabinyan? The Israeli author became a literary superstar when Israel’s Education Minister called her novel depicting a Palestinian-Israeli romance a threat to Jewish identity and pulled it from the nation’s schools. by Marilyn Cooper Politics Playing To Win Sheldon Adelson’s launch of Israel Hayom changed the course of Israeli politics....
Guy Laron’s challenging new book, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, is well worth reading even though Laron, a lecturer in international relations at Hebrew University, focuses too much on the war’s international context and, at times, relies too heavily upon unsubstantiated...
"Jerusalem contains more different versions of Heaven than any outsider can imagine,” Israeli writer Amos Oz once told the late American author Saul Bellow. Despite, or perhaps because of this, its geopolitics have posed a sort of diplomatic hell for millennia. Holy to Islam and...