There is a seeming transparency in the prose of On the Move, the late Oliver Sacks's memoir about leaving home and the divergent, sometimes vagabond, life he made.
Daniel Byman, director of research and a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program, on the roots of Jewish terrorism and what can be done to address it.
President Barack Obama on Friday will keynote a live webcast hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America and the member organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
"I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing," writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.
The symbolism of holding an international Jewish sporting event at Berlin’s Olympic Park—built by the National Socialists for the 1936 Olympics, from which Jewish athletes were excluded—was lost on no one.
Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
As Hurricane Irene descended on New York City in 2011, acclaimed poet Edward Hirsch received a text message from his only son Gabriel that he would be home in an hour. That was the last time he would hear from him.