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The American-Israeli alliance is eternal, stated Barack Obama upon his arrival - using the eternal Hebrew word, lanetzah.

By Shoshana Kordova | Mar 21, 2013 | 10:23 AM

A Palestinian standing near a burnt car, allegedly torched by Jewish settlers, in the West Bank

David's Harp / Three intifadas and you’re out

A Third Intifada is an event waiting to happen among the Palestinians, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems incapable of doing what it takes to avert it.

By David Rosenberg | Feb 27, 2013 | 08:02 AM

This day in Jewish history / Levi Strauss, blue jeans pioneer, is born

Bavarian-born Jew Loeb Strauss moved to California in 1853 to set up a branch of his family's dry-goods business, and ended up revolutionizing fashion.

By David B. Green | Feb 26, 2013 | 08:57 AM

Word of the Day / Sihakta ota שִׂחַקְתָּ אוֹתָהּ

This term, which sometimes connotes maneuvering, is perhaps most closely related to the English phrase 'well played.'

By Shoshana Kordova | Feb 26, 2013 | 08:48 AM

A gallery worker walks past Seagram murals by Russian-born American painter Mark Rothko.

This day in Jewish history / Artist Mark Rothko is found dead

The painter, who barely had a formal art education yet made it into some of the world's greatest museums, committed suicide in 1970.

By David B. Green | Feb 25, 2013 | 09:50 AM

Word of the Day / Parve פַּרְוֶה

In Hebrew, the word not only denotes a dietary neutral, as in 'neither milk nor meat,' but also an anemic personality.

By Shoshana Kordova | Feb 25, 2013 | 08:50 AM

Before they pave paradise: Preserving nature in one of central Israel's last remaining open areas

Within a few years, the fields around an environmental youth village to the north of Tel Aviv will be turned into residential projects. Ecologist Roni Shushan is clinging to the last bits of untouched land.

By Moshe Gilad | Feb 25, 2013 | 03:14 AM

Israel's mad men giving their field bad PR

Public relations, copywriting and advertising offer workers long days, no vacations and very little love. A few downtrodden employees wish it would change.

By Hila Weisberg | Feb 25, 2013 | 01:46 AM

Itzhak Segev. "We looked local so we didn't stand out."

For Israel's last military attaché in Tehran, 'Argo' is kids' stuff

As revolution raged, Brig. Gen. (ret.) Itzhak Segev helped lead 32 other Israelis to safety.

By Gilad Halpern | Feb 24, 2013 | 11:53 PM | 16

Someone Else's Simcha / Sharon Shaya's bat mitzvah – Logging off long enough to grow up

She may be Google-generation, but one girl shows that rites of passage, and the values they represent, can still matter.

By Ron Ben-Tovim | Feb 24, 2013 | 06:33 PM

Turkey's close encounters of the Kurd kind

After 30 years and 40,000 deaths, Turkey is now openly seeking a political solution to its Kurdish problem/ The peace move also aids the presidential ambitions of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

By Zvi Bar'el | Feb 24, 2013 | 10:50 AM

Sperm samples at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center's sperm bank

His or hers: Who owns a donor's sperm?

That question is at the heart of a recent High Court ruling concerning a donor who changed his mind and wants his sperm back, much to the fury of the woman who purchased it.

By Ronny Linder-Ganz | Feb 24, 2013 | 10:50 AM | 5

This day in Jewish history / A New Zealand premier is born

Julius Vogel rejected all setbacks, worked tirelessly to advance the Kiwi cause and had a vision of women running the world.

By David B. Green | Feb 24, 2013 | 09:40 AM | 4

Word of the Day / Nahafokh hu נַהֲפוֹךְ הוּא

The story of Purim is a story of the tables being turned and from it we get this topsy-turvy phrase for when something isn't quite as it seems.

By Shoshana Kordova | Feb 24, 2013 | 08:14 AM

How Martin Luther King Jr. avoided visiting Israel

Documents that have come to light 45 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. show Israel's efforts to woo the civil rights leader – a campaign that never came to fruition.

By Ofer Aderet | Feb 23, 2013 | 05:23 PM | 17

This day in Jewish history / Rashi is born

Be he descendent of King David or not, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki's light on sacred writings continues to guide Jewish scholars to this day.

By David B. Green | Feb 22, 2013 | 10:13 AM

Where are they now?

Where are they now? / The Jackie Robinson of Israeli soccer

By Leora Eren Frucht | 02:39 PM

Where Are They Now? / A notorious Israeli bank robber, two decades on

By Leora Eren Frucht | 06:20 PM

Where are they now? / From Saigon to the Sea of Galilee

By Leora Eren Frucht | 07:26 AM | 6

State of the Union

State of the Union / When Gon met Edu

By Danna Harman | 06:34 PM

State of the Union / When Zvi met Regina

By Danna Harman | 12:58 PM

State of the Union / When Shalom met Yaffa

By Danna Harman | 09:13 AM

Word of the Day

Word of the Day / Kuntz

By Shoshana Kordova | 08:35 PM

Word of the day / Kishta

By Shoshana Kordova | 08:23 AM

Word of the Day / Memshala

By Shoshana Kordova | 08:44 AM

Someone Else's Simcha

Someone Else's Simcha / Amit and Nili's wedding - Don't stop believing

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 06:29 PM

Someone Else's Simcha / Pnina and Yitzhak's 50th anniversary – Indian love, set in gold

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 01:56 PM

Someone Else's Simcha / Yossi Zaorov's enlistment party – A merry date with destiny

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 08:29 AM

David's Harp

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, center.

David's Harp / Yair Lapid: New politics, or just born yesterday?

By David Rosenberg | 08:54 PM

David's Harp / Hugo Chavez, Yair Lapid and useful pigs

By David Rosenberg | 09:52 PM

Hungover in Israel's bond market – and partying on

By David Rosenberg | 05:08 PM

On Root

Keep the pita, lose the hummus and pickles for Passover.

On Root / In search of breadcrumbs, oxygen and pickles

By Jeremy Benstein | 07:41 PM

On Root / How 'Europe' and 'Maghreb' both come from Hebrew

By Jeremy Benstein | 12:08 PM | 4

On Root / Cowboys home on the Israeli range at dawn

By Jeremy Benstein | 12:27 PM

Double Take

African migrants looking through the fence at the Egyptian-Israeli border on August 4, 2012.

Double Take / African asylum seekers out of the spolight but not in the clear

By Joel Greenberg | 08:39 AM

Double Take / A month after Gaza war, Hamas still rides a wave of popularity

By Joel Greenberg | 07:22 AM | 4

Double Take / The politics of potholes in East Jerusalem

By Joel Greenberg | 09:41 AM