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Last Resort

As Israel has demonstrated its ability to overcome military aggression against it, its enemies have chosen another method of attack.A Living, Humming Instrument

The great poet of cultural Zionism, Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873–1934), also gave voice to the predicament of loving religious Judaism while violating its norms.Cold Front

Iceland has an ignoble history of anti-Semitism, and its current left-wing government is exacerbating matters. Neither Jew Nor Greek

A novelistic account of Brother Daniel, a notorious Jewish-born convert to Christianity, embraces the dissolution of distinctions—not only between Christians and Jews, but between murderers and victims.UNESCO’s Revisionism

Mired in anti-Jewish prejudice, the UN's cultural body classifies Rachel's tomb and Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs as mosques—and the great Jewish scholar and philosopher Maimonides as a Muslim.The Three-Week Challenge

The mourning rituals of the period leading up to Tisha b'Av (this year on August 9) are largely foreign territory to non-Orthodox Jews; but doesn't everyone know the meaning of loss?Coming of Age

The prolific Hebrew poet Leah Goldberg, born a century ago, was also the author of a piercing novel of adolescence and romance, now released in English.Struggling to Survive

From Butte (Montana) to Paducah (Kentucky) to Sumter (North Carolina), Jewish life is on the wane while communities elsewhere in the same states thrive.My Australia

Through the life of a young boy raised as a Polish Catholic, a new film explores the postwar generation in Europe and its relation to Jews and (sometimes hidden) Jewish identity.