Aviya Kushner has written a work of popular scholarship that has a point or two to make about what the Bible has come to mean to English speakers.

When a respected veteran diplomat like Ross offers guidance to American and Israeli policymakers, we would all be wise to listen.

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The title of this ambitious, compassionate tale of four women who love, lose and rededicate themselves to life refers to a “solemn, ancient, sacred” burial ritual, a hesed…

In her new memoir, Rita Gabis tells of unearthing facts about her once-beloved grandfather, the chief of police from 1941 to 1943 under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian…

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In his controversial new history of the Holocaust, Timothy Snyder argues that anti-Semitism cannot fully explain the behavior of those involved in the murder of the Jews.

An exchange of glances between a woman and a man in a Tel Aviv café. The woman exits and the man runs after her.