Opinion // The Shot Heard Round the World
The Israeli soldier who “neutralized” a terrorist is not the true villain.
From the Editor // May/June 2016
On occasion, tectonic shifts occur that break apart continents of political thought and reshape them into new ones
Nesse Godin’s Story: “Don’t Let Us Be Forgotten”
Today, Jewish communities around the world are commemorating Yom HaShoah, the international Holocaust memorial day. Thomas Siurkus, a volunteer from the German peace organization Action...
The Rise of the Vegan Seder
Will beets, avocados, wild rice or mushrooms make an appearance on your Seder plate this Passover?
Jewish Routes // Vermont
The Jewish presence in Vermont can be traced back to land speculators in the 1760s, but a more substantial group, primarily German-speaking, started settling in the state in the 1840s
An Unreported Part of AP’s Past
German historian Harriet Scharnberg on the alleged link between the Associated Press and the Nazis.
A Youth With Courage
Toward the end of President Barack Obama’s Rose Garden speech announcing his pick to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court bench, he recalled a telling anecdote from the nominee’s high-school graduation—which also happened to be my own.
Talk of the Table // Parsley, Celery and Cilantro, Oh My!
The Passover seder is one of Judaism’s most simultaneously stable and mutable traditions: There are universally agreed-upon aspects of the ritual (the four questions, the bitter herb, the four cups of wine), and yet there are many variations
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.
An Author’s Grief Finds New Form on the Stage
Israeli novelist David Grossman received international acclaim for his book To the End of the Land, published in English in 2010. The novel received attention...
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?