‘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.
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.
In her fourth book, Adina Hoffman focuses on three brilliant Jerusalem architects.
hree thousand years ago, tradition says the prophet Samuel anointed a lowly shepherd named David king of Israel. A warrior
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.
We asked 20 prominent Jewish authors to discuss the books that shaped them.
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…
The Holocaust (Shoah) and the Nakba (al-Karitha) share three characteristics. First, both terms mean catastrophe, disaster or calamity.
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.
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.
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?
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.