“I’ve integrated prayer into these amulets and made them to resemble a pill box, evoking birth control,” says Charlie Schrön. The multimedia exhibition of work by 21 female artists is a powerful rejoinder to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last spring. ...
The West Bank is such a crazy-quilt of settlements that Palestinian sovereignty there would require evicting tens of thousands of Jews. ...
This year has been an absolute feast for readers. But with so many great books out there, it can be ...
My aunt couldn’t stop hugging me. I didn't remember ever having been hugged in my life. I remember thinking, “This is kind of nice.” ...
Confidence also comes from the people who trust you; in my case, my parents, friends, bosses, students—they had confidence in me. ...

I am always amazed at the power of one assassination or violent act to upend the fragile progress of humanity—in

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Henry Kissinger, now 99 years old, has added to his prodigious scholarship a valuable and enjoyable book on the qualities of great leadership. ...
Bahraini journalist Ahdeya Al Sayed, editor-in-chief of the Times of Bahrain discusses the history and importance of Bahraini-Israeli relations, antisemitism in the Arab world and how the Israel-Hamas War is viewed in various Gulf States. ...
The work doesn't stop, even on Thanksgiving, for President Biden, who stayed in close communication with Middle Eastern leaders over the holiday concerning the release of hostages from Hamas. ...
David Israel Katz writes us into spaces that negate sense, and importantly, negate our impulse to try to locate sense. ...
The October 7 Hamas attack showed that sex crimes are not absent from the modern battlefield. ...
The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza means that conversations may be especially fraught around the table this year, for multi-generational families of all types and especially for Jewish families. ...