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Europe

The Rise of Spain’s Pro-Israel, Far-Right Party

The ultranationalist Vox party scored a big win in Spain’s parliamentary elections with a platform that combines anti-immigration rhetoric and support for Israel

By Alejandro Baer · May 2, 2019
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Culture News

The Ghetto

503 years after the first Jewish enclave was instituted in Venice, what does the word ‘ghetto’ mean today?

By Benjamin Ravid · March 26, 2019
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Family

Lessons From the Kosher Meat Boycott

What today’s women activists can learn from a little-known uprising in 1902

By Marjorie Ingall · May 6, 2019

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Family

The Jewification of ‘Tootsie’

The Broadway musical is a lot more Jewish than the movie

By Marjorie Ingall · May 17, 2019
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Notebook

Spies Like Us

Ep. 181: Comedian Pete Holmes and journalist Matti Friedman

By Unorthodox · May 16, 2019
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Food

Tel Aviv’s Restaurant Scene Goes Kosher

Israel’s leading chefs are taking the city’s food in a new direction

By Flora Tsapovsky · May 15, 2019
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Curtain Gradient

Cities of Ice

By Dara Horn

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United States

The Prophet of All Media

With his new book, Howard Stern proves that his rightful place is among the prophets and moral visionaries, not the ‘shock jocks’

By Liel Leibovitz · May 17, 2019
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Middle East

Israel’s Covert Mission to Destroy a Secret Syrian Nuclear Reactor

An excerpt from the new book ‘Shadow Strike’

By Yaakov Katz · May 16, 2019
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Middle East

A New Strategy to Counter Iran’s Growing Power

Obama’s attempt to make Tehran an ally against ISIS has backfired. Trump needs to ditch that approach to keep Iran in check and prevent an ISIS resurgence.

By Omar Hossino · May 15, 2019

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Visual Art & Design

A Blood-Stained Renoir on Exhibit in Paris

Fifty works in the collection of a former German arms dealer—including a renowned portrait of a Sephardic aristocrat—show how France fails to fully grapple with its collaboration in the Nazi art market for plundered works

By Doreen Carvajal · May 17, 2019
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Fiction and Essays

Room 222

Four seasons in academic hell

By Leslie Epstein · May 16, 2019
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Book Reviews

Master of the Double Exile

The late Iraqi Israeli novelist Samir Naqqash was forever torn between competing loyalties. An English translation of ‘Tenants and Cobwebs,’ his portrait of 1940s Baghdad, shows him to be the tragic chronicler of the uprooting of Iraqi Jews.

By Mardean Isaac · May 15, 2019