Professor David Weiss Halivni, who died this week, was a scholarly giant with the highest aspirations
A philatelist passes on his little square markers of love and loss to his daughter
Like a vampire, I fit nowhere in Israel but inside the real and made-up stories of lovers and others. Fifty years after the end of the Six-Day War, a look back at the monsters and myths of youth.
Academics find Israel’s national anthem too offensive for graduation
It’s been 100 years since the Nobel Prize-winning physicist delivered his groundbreaking General Theory of Relativity
An excerpt from ‘The Newton Papers’ reveals the scientist’s long-hidden, anti-rationalist, heretical obsession with alchemy
The nine unopened scrolls were discovered in 1952 but never investigated
Babs receives an honorary doctorate from Hebrew University in Israel
A vote to officially allow English at the Jerusalem institution is part of a longer history of Zionist concessions
Family of the victims and witnesses look back
The famed hairdresser, who died Wednesday, fought against British fascists and then for Israel’s independence
Hebrew University professor Bernard Avishai’s playful new critical look at Philip Roth’s 1969 classic digs deep into the novel’s neurotic passion
Joseph Cedar’s Footnote pits a Talmudic scholar against his academic son in a tale equal parts midrash, riddle, and Israeli political tragedy
Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Network, and the nightmare scenario behind his latest Academy Award-nominated film
Hebrew U. algorithm gives old video games new lives
Shiva Stars
You don’t have to be Einstein to smell a rat
In 2004, Natalie Portman—likely to win a Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan this weekend—spent a year at Hebrew University. So did I, and it’s her fault I started smoking.
