Search Results

Search for    in    All Categories Daily Features Daily Picks The Weekly Portion   

You can also browse by author, browse by source, or view the archives.

Disgracing Andrei Sakharov

In its zeal to demonize Israel, the European Parliament has befouled the memory of the great Soviet dissident by nominating an anti-Israel lobbying group for the prize bearing his name.Family Matters

The Hebrew Bible portrays many models of family life, each arising from a distinctive economic situation. Forgetting the Victims

The architecture of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, open this week, strives to create an emotional experience, not to convey a message; at whose expense?Ale Trail

Ancient Israel's affinity for beer.Tutu’s Legacy

The South African archbishop, who retired last week at seventy-nine, is an internationally celebrated champion of human rights—also, a bigoted and relentless fulminator against Israel and the Jews.Talking about the Intifada

How much should young, enthusiastic visitors to Israel, who are there to learn and to have fun, be told about the horrors of the second intifada and their lasting imprint on the Israeli spirit?Vayera: Did Abraham Keep Kosher? (Do Angels?)

By Moshe Sokolow It was the prophet Isaiah who conferred on Abraham and Sarah the honorific titles of metaphysical first parents, saying: "Listen to me, you who pursue justice and seek God; look toward the rock whence you were hewn and toward the pit whence you were dug. Look toward Abraham, your father, and toward Sarah, who bore you" (Isaiah 51:1-2). Indeed, the relentless pursuit of justice and a persistent, often pernickety, commitment to the traditional religious beliefs and cultural mores modeled by these ancestors have lasted with the Jewish people throughout the ages.No Friends but the Mountains

Kurds and Jews share a similar history—and a common enemy.New European Order

In Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder places the Holocaust in the context of the wider European war, in the process giving a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine.