A once-in-a-generation, yet largely forgotten, insect swarm reminds us that God’s plagues and wonders might be closer at hand than we think
Searching for a future in the suburbs of Tel Aviv
A trio of movies offers radically different ideas about identity, memory, and the significance of forgetting
A collection of 29 recently discovered homilies by the early Church Father offers dazzling insight into a shared late antique universe of Christians and Jews
More than a century ago, Americans could visit a simulated Jerusalem without ever leaving the country
Social media narratives fuel conflict and excite childish ideologues, but they ignore the forces that hold our city together
Among the greatest, and surely the weirdest, 20th-century spy novels, written by a former CIA Mideast case officer and centered on the early history of the State of Israel
For Jerusalem Day, the origins of a geographical concept in Jewish anti-Greek and anti-Roman polemic
I played for the evangelical Christians in Jerusalem, but the angels sang for me
The poet’s philo-Semitism and visit to Jerusalem had a profound influence on him, and on Yehuda Amichai
Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum tries to model Israel’s future shared society
New luxury apartments target the ultra-Orthodox
A Syrian-born poet resembles Arab literary men of the ancient past
A reader’s notes from the Old City
An exclusive interview with Jerusalem’s new mayor on the challenges of keeping the peace and keeping trash off the streets in the world’s holiest city
A new tour of Jerusalem gives visitors Jewish and Palestinian perspectives, side-by-side
From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’
A war correspondent’s Christmas