Of Yom Kippur and Baseball
Amichai Chasson’s poem ‘America’ captures three moments in front of a TV screen, spanning 44 years of U.S.-Israeli relations on both a national and personal level
Books
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
Book Review The Kafkaesque Court Battle Over Kafka's Literary Remains
In a new book, Benjamin Balint unravels the circumstances that led to the bitter fight over Max Brod's estate and the way it played out in courtrooms in Israel and abroad
The Son Kafka Never Knew He Had
Until shortly before his death, Max Brod debated whether or not to publish the story about the illegitimate child Kafka may have had — and shared those deliberations with my mother, a poet, in an apartment in Tel Aviv
Trying to Woo Israelis Away From Netflix, Book Sellers Use Steep Discounts
Slumping sales and the end of the controversial Book Law have led to a sudden price war between two top retailers during Hebrew Book Week
Etgar Keret's New Book: As Witty as a Good Holocaust Joke
In the writer’s latest book, now available in Hebrew, the world remains the same gloomy and absurd place – and the laughter is even less present than before
Book Review Between the Trauma of the Holocaust and the Trauma of Nakba
Elias Khoury’s 'Children of the Ghetto' adds a new layer to the Israeli-Palestinian story
This American Jew Was Baited by White Supremacists. He Sees Israel as Part of the Problem
In his book ‘(((Semitism))),’ Jonathan Weisman tackles cyberhate against Jews in the age of Trump and comes up with a peculiar solution