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Sep
September/October 2017
Profile
Simon Schama Steals the Show
The effusive British historian and master storyteller returns for part two of the history of the...
03
Nov
Book Review // Judas
Amos Oz’s novel Habesorah Al Pi Yehudah (The Gospel According to Judas), translated by his longtime collaborator, Nicholas de Lange, under the title Judas, opens in the winter of 1959-60, when the life of Shmuel Ash, a graduate student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is turned upside down…
03
Nov
From The Editor // November/December 2016
This incredibly polarizing presidential campaign and election are finally behind us. To quote from Robert Hunter’s lyrics in the Grate...
21
Sep
Young readers share their thoughts about Wiesel’s Night
I grew up hearing the stories of my grandparents, who both survived the Holocaust, but when I read Night, it was in a different setting than I was used to: The text was assigned for my 9th-grade English class…
29
Aug
Israel: A Multi-Generational Destination
Your family trip to Israel will bring generations together in ways no other destination can, strengthening Jewish identity while connecting young and old alike to history, lore and land.
17
Aug
List of Jewish Genetic Diseases
The discovery of DNA and subsequent research has opened a new door of understanding into health, helping to uncover the genetic r...
16
Aug
King David’s Genes
by Nadine Epstein
Three thousand years ago, tradition says the prophet Samuel anointed a lowly shepherd named David king of Israel. ...
16
Aug
The Evolution of David Brooks
David Brooks, that rare New York Times columnist equally criticized by liberals and conservatives alike, was born in Toronto, Canada. H...
09
Aug
The Story of Sergey Brin
How the Moscow-born entrepreneur cofounded Google...and changed the way the world searches.
It takes a bit of searching to find Sergey...