Inside Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Two years after the dawn of the Arab Spring and six months after Mohamed Morsi was elected president, democracy is still a work in progress...
Suicide Bombers Are Spreading False Islam
by Aylin Kocaman
In October, the Palestine Committee of the Arab Lawyers Union honored a suicide bomber. A law student who entered a restaurant in Israel...
Notable Cookbooks
From Brooklyn to Jerusalem to the Greek isles, a new batch of Jewish cookbooks takes you on a whirlwind tour of Jewish gastronomy.
The Mile End...
Ask the Rabbis: Does Jewish anxiety have a theological basis?
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Anxiety is a universal human malady that strikes when we find ourselves at the crossroads of choice-making, equipped with several hefty wagonloads of relativities and...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Why Can’t We Show Empathy for the Palestinians?
The American Jewish thought police are quick to label sympathy a betrayal of Israel.
Robert Satloff: Will 2013 Be an Unlucky Year for Israel?
The many dangers lurking in the Middle East are likely to spell conflict, not peace.
Aluf Benn: Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Drift Further Apart
How can the next Israeli government bridge the growing secular-religious divide?
Yagil Levy: Israel’s New Hierarchy of Death
Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Israeli, Gazan: Whose life is least valuable?
Amy E. Schwartz: World Museums Rethink Islamic Art
The next generation of exhibits builds bridges in ways you might not expect.
Elephant in the Room | How Has Anxiety Affected You, Your Family or the Jewish People?
Our second annual Elephant in the Room Essay Contest—in partnership with the Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety—seeks to lessen the stigma surrounding anxiety by...
Jewish Word | Tsuris
Nobody Knows the Tsuris I’ve Seen…
“Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,” laments an African-American spiritual. In Yiddish, this feeling is encapsulated by the word tsuris—variously...
Uncle Xenon: The Elemental Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks opens the door of his lower Manhattan apartment himself because his assistant, Kate Edgar, is in the emergency room with a twisted ankle....