Simon Schama Steals The Show
The Effusive British Historian And Master Storyteller Is Back To Tell Part Two Of His History Of The Jewish People.
The Effusive British Historian And Master Storyteller Is Back To Tell Part Two Of His History Of The Jewish People.
The end of the long civil war between Tamil and Buddhist forces promised peace. Instead, Buddhist nationalists found a new enemy: their Muslim neighbors.
With the High Holidays on the horizon—and with the current political climate in mind—we asked our “Ask the Rabbis” editor to reflect on some of her favorite pieces of rabbinical wisdom.
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INDEPENDENT: Time is an invitation. Both words share the same root: z’mahn. It is written: “The life of man is like a breath exhaling; his days are like a passing shadow” (Psalms 144:4).
I sat in front of our black-and-white 19-inch TV watching the progress of the war, my heart in my mouth the whole time.
At the Passover seder, Jews across the world retell the greatest love story of all time: the story of what happened when God fell in love.
28 years ago political philosopher Francis Fukuyama famously declared “the end of history,”meaning that there would be “the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” It was a heady time. The Berlin Wall was poised to fall…
On election night, a group of Jews welcomed a Syrian family. Now they wonder what to say when the refugees ask: Will we be safe here?
Toscano felt proud of Anna, and after many hours he asked her the critical question: “Can I portray you?”
“Jerusalem contains more different versions of Heaven than any outsider can imagine,” Israeli writer Amos Oz once told the late
INDEPENDENT Intermarriage is a reality of American Jewish life that isn’t receding, no matter how valiant the efforts to counter