‘While I’m Here’: A Look Back at Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel was an actor, a folksinger, a Yiddish speaker, an activist. Now, a group of musicians is making its own attempt at preserving Bikel’s legacy.
Q&A: Author Adina Hoffman on Jerusalem Architects
In her fourth book, Adina Hoffman focuses on three brilliant Jerusalem architects.
King David’s Genes
hree thousand years ago, tradition says the prophet Samuel anointed a lowly shepherd named David king of Israel. A warrior
American Jewish Groups Respond to the Movement for Black Lives’ Platform
Since the Movement for Black Lives’ platform went live, it has left some Jewish groups trying to balance their obligation to the racial justice movement with their dedication to Israel.
Books That Shaped Great Authors
We asked 20 prominent Jewish authors to discuss the books that shaped them.
Book Review // The Extra by A.B. Yehoshua
There is a tradition, more prominent in theater than in fiction, of the unwanted guest. One thinks of such works as Kaufman and Hart’s 1939 play The Man Who Came to Dinner; the 1967 Stanley Kramer-directed Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner…
Opinion // Challenging History’s Taboos
The Holocaust (Shoah) and the Nakba (al-Karitha) share three characteristics. First, both terms mean catastrophe, disaster or calamity.
A Dispatch From AIPAC
As soon as I approached the Metro escalator, I could sense the electricity in the air. This was not going to be your ordinary evening of politicians pandering to the AIPAC legions.
Candidates Take Center Stage At AIPAC
It would be another 10 hours before he took the Verizon Center stage, but from the start of day two of the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, it was clear that Donald Trump was in the room.
How The Black Lives Matter and Palestinian Movements Converged
In August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri erupted in protests after the death of Michael Brown, while thousands of miles away, war raged in Israel and Gaza. From this confluence of events emerged a new movement of black-Palestinian solidarity. How did this alliance come to be?
An All-Women Symposium: The Missing XX-Factor
1| What more could be done to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians? 2| What might women bring to the peace
Visual Moment // Moshe Safdie
In 1967 a 29-year-old Israeli-born Canadian architect by the name of Moshe Safdie gained international recognition for his groundbreaking, visionary design for high-quality, affordable urban housing.