Book Review // Queen of Thieves
Queen of Thieves: The True Story of “Marm” Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York by J. North Conway / Skyhorse Publishing / 2014, pp. 240, $24.95
Book Review // Babel in Zion
Babel in Zion:Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920–1948 by Liora R. Halperin / Yale University Press / 2014, pp. 328, $40
Israeli Ambassador to Denmark Responds to Copenhagen Shootings
On Monday evening, a huge memorial rally was held in Copenhagen for the victims of the weekend's shootings, in which a gunman killed two people,...
Morris Abram: The Man Who Unmasked the KKK and Helped Establish “One Person, One Vote”
by Cecily Abram
Those who remember Morris Berthold Abram may recall his tenure as president of Brandeis University during the tumultuous years of 1968-1970. Yet many...
Color Red, Color Red
by David W. Weiss
July 14, 2014
We have just been seated on the motorized cart that takes handicapped passengers to the departure gates when the sirens...
An Argentine Journalist on Fallout from Prosecutor’s Mysterious Death
The plot unfolded like a murder mystery.
First, on January 18, Argentine state prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead from a gunshot wound. The timing was uncanny:...
The Enduring Relevance of Tu B’Shevat
Today marks the Jewish holiday Tu B’Shevat. Tu B’Shevat celebrates the new year for trees and is often marked with a Tu B’Shevat seder, where attendees...
Shmuel Rosner on Upcoming Israel Elections
Israel’s election season heated up this week as political parties rushed to submit their final list of candidates. Much is at stake: This time, unlike...
Fiction // Killing Brother Michael
Leib’s brother was named Michael, after Michael Faraday, creator of the balloon and author of the work The Chemical History of the Candle. Faraday was a prominent chemist and physicist during the mid-1800s, and Leib’s father—a balloonist during the week, an aspiring inventor on weekends—found Mr. Faraday’s biography and rubbery inventions encouraging in both his personal and professional life.
Talk of the Table // Parsnip
Getting to the Root of Parsnip’s Unlikely Magic
Richard Zimler—Author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
How a Gay, Long Island-born mystery writer became Portugal’s Jewish conscience
A Third-Generation Remembrance of Holocaust’s Horrors
Today, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the horrors of the Holocaust loom large in the world’s collective memory. But for those...