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The Softer Side of a Revolutionary

"Red Rosa" Luxemburg made her name with blistering articles in the Party press. Yet her letters from prison are, in fact, so resolutely cheerful and gentle that they can become cloying.Strike?

Here's what it would take for Israel to incapacitate Iran's nuclear capability. Recanting Cant

The infamous author of the Goldstone Report now shames those, especially in South Africa, who conflate the situation in Israel and the West Bank with the old apartheid system. We are the 50%

While hopes for democracy in Arab states have never been so great, the future of the region's women is precarious. But the United States can be of significant help.After Weegee

Although her name comes up only late in the book, Susan Sontag is the grand antagonist of a series of essays on contemporary Jewish American photographers.What’s in a (Jewish) Name?

Hunting for baby names, one Talmud scholar riffles through a lexicon of Jewish names in antiquity.Ars gratia artis

As the number of Israel's liberal arts students plummets to an all-time low, new initiatives are arising to reverse the decline.Hear O Oceania

In this arresting video, a tribe of Papua New Guineans recites the Sh'ma prayer (Deuteronomy 6:4).Roots of Resistance

Painfully shy, prone to melancholy, and known for his tragicomically inert stage characters, Samuel Beckett was, in fact, a dynamic member of the French Resistance.