Israeli Election: How I (Literally) Joined the Drive to Get Out the Bedouin Vote
Thousands of Bedouin women in southern Israel need rides to the polling places on Election Day – here’s how I got involved and what I learned
David B. Green
Oslo vs. Trump's Vision: How U.S. Mideast Plan Differs From Its Predecessors
From the way it was created and the way it was unveiled to the actual content, these are the major differences between the new peace plan and previous ones
The Dreyfus Affair's Lessons on anti-Semitism Are as Relevant as Ever
What is it about the Dreyfus Affair, which polarized fin-de-siecle France that still resonates with an immediacy that makes one wonder if humanity is truly capable of learning from its mistakes?
How Monsey Became a Center of Hasidic Life in America
The hamlet is among several in Rockland County that boast thriving, highly visible ultra-Orthodox communities – making them potential targets for hate crimes like Saturday's stabbing
An Italian Institution's Antidote to anti-Semitism? Telling the 2,000-year History of the Country's Jews
A new museum in Ferrara, Italy shows that the remarkable story of Italian Jewry is inextricably intertwined with the country's history
The Blood Libel That Rocked America
A new book examines how, nearly a century ago, a small town in upstate New York saw an actual blood libel, where the residents were ready to entertain the notion that their Jewish neighbors had kidnapped a young child for a ritual sacrifice
Explained Israel Election Results: Why Arabs Are Finally Mingling at Israel’s Political Party
For years, Arab politicians were shunned by Zionist parties — and vice versa. In the space of five short months, that has all changed
Kickbacks and Death Threats: The Town That Shows How Democracy Is Failing Israel's Arabs
The authorities say they’re doing everything they can to help the Arab citizens of Kalansua, but desperate locals are having a hard time believing that. Meet the Arab town crying out for good governance
Voter Suppression in Israel: Debunking Netanyahu's Claims on Arab Voter Fraud
Would allowing cameras into polling stations actually stop voter fraud? How would it impact Arab voter turnout? 4 key questions in the debate about voter suppression in Israel
Declassified: When a ‘Loaded’ Nixon Confused Syria and Egypt During Yom Kippur War
Newly declassified transcripts highlight the key role U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger played in managing the 1973 conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors
Who Is Chiune Sugihara? The Japanese Hero Who Saved 6,000 Jews From the Holocaust
Chiune Sugihara, a government official of samurai heritage, put aside career, family and reputation to do the right thing, which was to issue transit visas to Jews fleeing the Nazis
Explained The Bloody Events of October 2000 That Just Forced Barak to Apologize to Israel's Arabs
The former Labor Party leader was prime minister when 12 Arab citizens were killed by Israeli police. What has triggered his belated apology 19 years later?
An Israeli Rock Star Tries to Figure Out Where Zionism Went Wrong
On the cusp of 40, soft-spoken musician Rona Kenan, daughter of the mercurial leftist Amos Kenan, has come out with a hard-wrought album. In it she looks beyond her own private walls to ask poignant questions about why life is so alienating and chaotic today
'A Sad Moment in Our History': Arab Voters Expected to Shun Israeli Election in Record Numbers
The low turnout in the April election has been attributed to the collapse of a four-party political alliance. But an expert says that even if the parties reunite, they are unlikely to regain their political power
Democracy in Netanyahu's Israel Under Greater Threat Than in Trump's America, Warns Lawfare Editor
Benjamin Wittes, one of the most sought-after commentators on legal affairs in Trump-era America, says Benjamin Netanyahu could wreak a lot of damage on the legal system in a very short space of time
The Intellectual Fighting Against Viktor Orban's War on George Soros
Michael Ignatieff has had a distinguished career as an academic and journalist (politician not so much). In Israel to receive the Dan David Prize, he explains why he's optimistic despite the rise of populism and his battle with Hungary's populist leader
From New Technology to Resurgent Nationalism: The Future of Holocaust Studies
Leading scholars identify the key trends shaping the field’s future in an age of Holocaust deniers and revisionists — while a Shoah sage offers invaluable advice to students to the next generation
Israel's Arabs Could Kick Netanyahu Out of Office. There's Only One Problem
Turnout among the Arab community could dip below 50 percent on April 9. It’s like ‘a soccer game in which the Jewish right and center-left are the two teams and the Arabs are the ball. Everybody’s kicking us and neither team wants us’ says one expert
A Golda Anniversary: How Meir Became Israel’s First (And Only) Female Prime Minister
At the start of March 1969, Israelis did not consider the 70-year old a serious contender for the premiership — but just three weeks later she had the job. Here's how history was made 50 years ago
Shoah Souvenirs: Should the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Have a Gift Store?
The museum sells Holocaust books but also bottle openers and tourist T-shirts with military logos and pictures of ibexes drinking iced tea. Is there a problem with that?
The Incredible Salvadoran Plot That Saved Thousands of Jews During the Holocaust
Two men – one a diplomat from El Salvador, the other a Romanian-Jewish businessman – hatched a plan that kept many Jews out of Auschwitz, yet their story is only known today thanks to a Central American beauty pageant in the 1970s
Amos Oz Challenged Israelis. Now His Work Should Be Our Moral Compass
The giant of Israeli literature didn’t hobnob with celebrities, but put the reader in the street, the garden and the kibbutz and brought out the pain and anxiety of Israeli life
The 11 Books I Wish I'd Read in 2018
Or, why new novels by Gary Shteyngart and Meg Wolitzer, and nonfiction books on the Mossad and the Kishinev pogrom, should make your end-of-year reading list
Why We Shouldn't Be Surprised by Ocasio-Cortez's Jewish Heritage
The congresswoman-elect is one of an estimated 65 million Latin Americans whose Sephardic roots can be traced back to the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal a half millennium ago
On the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, Overturning Assumptions About the Nazi Atrocity
Germans now prefer to call the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ the ‘November Pogrom,’ rejecting Nazi terminology of the time. It is just one of the perceptions to have changed over the years about the November 1938 attack, scholars say
Biblical Slut-shaming and Botched Femicide: A Jewish Lesson for the #MeToo Age
This old Hebrew tale, which traces its roots to Oriental folklore, tells the story of a virtuous heroine who is repeatedly forced to pay the price for being violently sexualized by men, and offers a timely lesson
From Lynchings to Mass Shootings: The History of Deadly Attacks on Jews in America
Lethal attacks on U.S. Jews in their homeland have been very rare, with Saturday’s mass shooting in Pittsburgh more than doubling the total number of fatalities – but white supremacists have targeted the community over the years
Walter Laqueur, Pioneering Scholar of Terrorism and the Holocaust, Dies at 97
Esteemed historian, who fled Nazi Germany a day before Kristallnacht, was an expert in Zionism, the fall of the Soviet Union and postwar Europe, among other things
Ex-Israeli Air Force Pilot Eyes His Toughest Mission Yet: Saving Both Israeli and Diaspora Jews
Tal Keinan wasn’t scared, even though he knew each time he took off that he might not return alive. Now, however, he fears for the future of Israel and the Jewish people – no less. But he thinks he might have the solution
Josef K. in Jerusalem’s Old City
Benjamin Balint on his book ‘Kafka’s Last Trial,’ and why no streets in Israel are named after the Jewish writer