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King David’s Genes

02:27 05 March by Nadine Epstein

Some prominent Jewish families believe they are descended from Israel's greatest monarch. Can DNA testing prove what their family trees have long shown?

Q&A: Sochi 2014, Russia’s Gays and the Jewish Response

17:41 18 December by Josh Tapper

Yelena Goltsman, of RUSA LGBT, a support group for Russian-speaking gay people in the United States, on Russia's anti-gay policies and the Sochi Olympics.

Q&A: Naomi Tsur on Women in Jerusalem Politics

16:23 21 October by Josh Tapper

Naomi Tsur spent five years as a third-string deputy to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, responsible for the ancient city’s urban planning and environmental sustainability files. But when she grew tired earlier this year of the backseat her policy initiatives were taking at male-dominated city hall,

FICTION: Sons of Shuka

15:25 25 September by Shay Aspril

Life can be hard, even terrifying for a person who wakes up in the morning and doesn’t know where he wants to have his coffee. Yoram awoke on that morning–a wintery autumn morning–and decided to warm up with a strong cappuccino at Caesar’s, a 15-minute

The Dead Sea’s Revenge

17:47 03 September by Eetta Prince-Gibson

The story of how humans are killing the Dead Sea—and how only international cooperation may save it.

How Jew-Friendly Persia Became Anti-Semitic Iran

16:15 14 June by Robert S. Greenberger

The complex tale of how the Persian Empire founded by Cyrus the Great—the world’s “first” Zionist—metamorphosed into the Israel-Hating nation we know today. Abdol Hossein Sardari didn’t look like a hero. But when Paris fell to Hitler in June 1940, the 30-year-old Muslim—a dapper man

The Muskie

16:57 24 May by Stuart Rosh

It’s a picture in one of 13 shoeboxes of pictures. 1973. Two middle-aged men stand leaning forward against the top rail of a fence. One of them–my father–towers over the other one, whose skin is taut against his face and neck. Between them six fish,

The Story of Sergey Brin

16:14 06 May by Mark Malseed

It takes a bit of searching to find Sergey Brin’s office at the Googleplex. Tucked away in a corner of Building #43 on this sprawling campus near the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, past rows of colorfully decorated cubicles and dorm-like meeting spaces, Office

A House Divided

14:55 01 May by Eve Fairbanks

Following the end of apartheid, students living in the dorms of the University of the Free State in South Africa heartily embraced integration. At first it went well, then the students chose to resegregate. What caused social progress to surge forward and then reverse course?

Nathan Guttman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place

18:04 27 March by Nathan Guttman

Why is America’s strongest faith-based bloc that opposes the war—the Jewish community—sitting this conflict out? From the front lines of the civil-rights movement through the Vietnam War protests and up to the campaign to stop genocide in Darfur, American Jews have never been shy about