A biography examines the life of ghetto insurgent and Zionist bard Abba Kovner
| 7:00 AM Dec 8, 2009
The story of Abba Kovner is one that—as we say about the exodus from Egypt on Passover—every Jew has a duty to learn and to tell. Because it is a Holocaust story, however, it cannot be a tale of rescue and salvation, as the exodus was. For the Jews of the Vilna ghetto, God’s “mighty ...
Remembering Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
| 7:00 AM Oct 28, 2009
A wonderful novel could be written about the year 1897. That’s the year of the first issue of the newspaper known as the Jewish Daily Forward, which became a tribune of the idea that Jews could become Americans. It’s also the year in which Theodor Herzl convened at Basel the First Zionist Congress, which stood ...
Chicago lawyer Alan Solow is the putative spokesman for American Jewry, but does he have what it takes to manage the community's increasingly complex relationship with the Obama Administration?
George Friedman built a private, subscription-based CIA. But is his intel any good?
Photos of the Jewish-themed Mardi Gras groups, the Krewe du Jieux and the Krewe du Mishigas
The Quranic argument for Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel
Evangelical Christians have emerged as Israel’s staunchest allies—even as some American Jews are made uneasy by the show of support
A new book offers a history of Jewish terrorism in Israel from the Maccabees to the present
At this spring’s World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, Israel will show off its burgeoning bilateral relationship with the host country
How Mirra Alfassa went from being a French bohemian to an Indian goddess
How the Mossad assassinated my tropical vacation
