Jewish Routes // Greater Hartford
Just outside of Hartford proper, Jewish families have intermingled with new immigrants over the years to form an unusually cohesive community in the suburbs of Greater Hartford.
Inside the Discovery of a Holocaust Escape Tunnel
A team of archaeologists says they can now confirm a story that, until today, only survivor testimony had preserved: a tunnel, dug with spoons, that saved the lives of twelve Jews during the Holocaust.
Reimagining The Merchant of Venice — in DC
by Katelyn Haas
As the stage lights dim, faint hip-hop can be heard in the background like a slow drumroll, setting the stage for the two...
Foods to Beat the Summer Heat
Cold Borscht by Alex Witchel
YIELD: About 2 quarts
TIME: One hour
INGREDIENTS
10 large or 20 small precooked (canned or vacuum-packed) beets
1 onion, peeled and...
Remembering Elie Wiesel, 1928–2016
How did the Nobel laureate influence your life? We want to hear your stories.
Books That Shaped Great Authors
We asked 20 prominent Jewish authors to discuss the books that shaped them.
Alan Furst Will Always Have Paris
In each of Alan Furst’s 14 novels about spies—not spy novels, he insists there is a difference—characters inevitably end up dining at Brasserie Heininger in Paris. The fictional restaurant, based on the real Brasserie Bofinger, with its opulent marble staircase and shucked oysters, represents the glamour and the joie de vivre of 1930s Paris, a city he calls “the heart of civilization.”
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.
Opinion // Declaring the Rights of Migrants
Refugees are flocking to the European continent in ever-growing numbers, and Europeans show increasing resistance to accepting them.
Opinion // The True Value of Cheap Books
It is Book Week in Tel Aviv. At Rabin Square, the tables are loaded with volumes, old and new, light and heavy, and buyers are leafing through them as they move from one publisher’s table to the next.
Opinion // What Wonder Woman Tells Us About Hillary
The night Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, I was finishing Jill Lepore’s fascinating bestseller, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, and came upon the strip in which Diana Prince...