Rank and File: Walking Tours in Jerusalem for Sukkot
AACI provides educational walks around the Old City; Nefesh B'Nefesh goes hiking in Gush Etzion; and Telfed celebrates its 70th birthday with a picnic
Jewish culture
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
Trendy Israeli Eateries Grab the Spotlight as New York's Traditional Jewish Restaurants Die Out
Old-fashioned Jewish delis are going out of business one after the other, their fatty, meaty menus outmoded by a modern yen for healthier food more typical of Israel's Mediterranean diet.
Jewish Rapper Mac Miller Found Dead at 26
Miller, who was born to a Jewish mother in Pittsburgh, was found dead of an apparent overdose at his house in California
Opinion Why Neil Simon’s Plays, for All Their Success on Broadway, Didn’t Make Such Great Movies
Almost all of Neil Simon’s plays and stage hits became films, but none of them became a pillar of cinematic comedy
Movie Review Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Play Fair?
A documentary on triplets placed with three families would have benefited from more nuanced storytelling
Remembering the Musical Genius of Leonard Bernstein
The American legend would have been 100 this month, but he was far more than just a great conductor or composer
Eva Hoffee, Original Heiress of Kafka Letters Forced to Give Them to Israel’s National Library, Dies at 85
After prolonged legal battles and a Supreme Court ruling, Eva Hoffe had to relinquish Czech-Jewish novelist's papers, many still stuck in safes 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
Long-lost Stanley Kubrick Script Found, Revealing Filmmaker's Jewish Roots
Screenplay discovered by Prof. Nathan Abrams shows how, like in 'Eyes Wide Shut,' Kubrick stripped stories from their Jewishness to adapt them to all-American settings