Eytan Fox’s brilliant new film Yossi makes gay love into something much more powerful

Long before I discovered Bloody Marys and martinis, I loved Manischewitz Concord grape wine

Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Network, and the nightmare scenario behind his latest Academy Award-nominated film

Critic Daphne Merkin’s all-time top ten

Agnieszka Holland’s new Holocaust film, In Darkness, is a quietly moving take on a subject that should be inexhaustible—but isn’t

Israel, a nascent cinematic empire, produces great films. But the 28th annual Jerusalem Film Festival, the industry’s most prominent showcase, is still plagued by informality and inattention

In An Exclusive Love, Johanna Adorján tries to make sense of how her Hungarian Jewish grandparents took their own lives—together—decades after having survived the Holocaust

Reviewers of David Grossman’s To the End of the Land have confused the author’s grief with his artistry—and have misread the book

The artist Avigdor Arikha, who died in 2010, lived—and painted—with gusto

Alice Miller was an authority on childhood trauma, but she stayed mum about her own

On the eve of the Oscars, an endorsement of ‘The White Ribbon’

On Valentine’s Day, reflecting on the limits and boundlessness of a father’s love

American Girl teaches the economic realities of the old Lower East Side—and of today