Yitzhak Laor

In Aviv Talmor's lovely mockumentary, the director sets off to establish whether Israel's national poet could really be his forebear.

Lapid's call for a universal draft is the slogan of the bourgeoisie, coming one step before the economic cutbacks that will deepen inequality. And he's just one of three macho men in power.

In the last book he wrote before his death, one of America’s most celebrated intellectuals shares his insights on everything from French socialism to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Two Israeli filmmakers went to the Hebron Hills to document Palestinians eking out a living from scavenging in a dump, and fell in love with their subjects.

Judge Menachem Finkelstein's book on Natan Alterman's political poetry obfuscates history in ways the poet rejected, possibly due to his own needs to justify his actions while serving as military advocate general.

The Berliner Ensemble offers a last opportunity to see Brechtian acting, wherein text and actor separate from each other before your eyes, and irony floods the stage.

The language used in a 400-year-old guide to formulation of legal documents reveals much about Jews and their religion, then and now

The rise of the extreme right requires a descent into a mythical world in which there is no chronology. No one asks any longer about the logic behind a given action. No one casts doubt any longer on the motives behind military operations.

The problem with Orientalist discourse of our commentators − which sees the world through the prism of the Shin Bet Security Service − is that it helps to seal off the ghetto into which we are gradually locking ourselves, a ghetto within the Middle East and within world history.

There is great irony in both the cliched plots of 'Mad Men,' and in the fact that the popular television series was created by men: It is clearly a show for women

A new biography of Simon Wiesenthal is about one man's ability to maneuver among a very large number of entities in order to achieve an objective, without selling his soul to the devil

What do the stories of Isaac and Ishmael have in common, both from the point of view of their ancient written source, and in the wonderful Rosh Hashanah liturgy?

A year and a half after he passed away at age 67, a film about the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish only heightens the feeling of loss that characterized his life and work - and now his death.

The publication in Hebrew of Freud's final work is an opportunity to look at the valiant, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt by the father of psychoanalysis to understand the origin of the Jews.

The beauty of this volume, which includes poems written in English and their translation into Hebrew, is to be found principally in the original texts.

The 26-year-old Druze artist Randa Mdah longs for Syria, but has chosen to live in Ramallah, where she's created a work so powerful it cannot be captured in photos

Maybe Altman's book, in which she captures the butterfly of the White Rose group, is so moving because of the paucity of Israeli discourse on German resistance.

Over and over, Klingberg comes back to the painful question that plagued him in prison and continues to torment him today: What would have happened if he had not caved in under pressure and confessed to the charges against him?

We have two cards up our sleeve: One is Mizrahi, the other is 'universal.' We pull out one or the other according to convenience

He was shunned by his colleagues for his political opinions. But Baruch Kimmerling did not relinquish his convictions, which included a demand to hold his own society up to the general rules of scientific sociology.

A eulogy for Tanya Reinhart, a brilliant linguist whose academic credentials were matched by her keen sense of political responsibility

A eulogy for Tanya Reinhart, a brilliant linguist whose academic credentials were matched by her keen sense of political responsibility.