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In Your Face

Eyes that spurn yet inviteLike spikes in the sunlightOf Manhattan's high-rise—Babylon's ladies outshineDaughters of Jerusalem,Zion is no easy climbThe Eternal Return

The relationship between the United States and Israel is fracturing. The president is pressuring the Jewish state to make painful concessions in return for vague agreements.  Israeli leaders worry that the support of a formerly reliable constituency—American Jews—is slipping away.The year is 1975. There’s a Key in My Challah!

Does the post-Passover tradition known as "shliss challah" derive from symbolic readings of the season's texts—or, rather, is it a Christian symbol of Jesus rising in the dough?  “Christ at the Checkpoint”

A growing movement seeks to align evangelical Christians with the Palestinian cause.Bon Voyage?

Flaubert and other nineteenth-century French travelers in Palestine groused about wild dogs, the hygiene of the locals, the blight of tourism, and the taste of Dead Sea water.Remembering Too Well?

The importance of fostering a Jewish identity that values "God of Sinai" over "God of Auschwitz."Genetic Threads

The story of Jewish origins, once the province of historians and scholars of religion, is now being told by DNA—and it decisively refutes the counter-narratives promulgated by Shlomo Sand.Chasing Death

To some people, the thought of death is melancholy and enervating; to others, it is a provocation to seize the day. Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah, definitely falls into the second category.