Two Israeli documentaries about anti-Semitism are hitting film festivals and theaters throughout the world. Yoav Shamir’s Defamation pokes fun at Jewish paranoia, questioning the very existence of

FICTION The Humbling by Philip Roth. (Houghton Mifflin, 160pp. $22) In recent years, Philip Roth has ventured from the large ambition of novels such as American Pastoral (1997)

FICTION Laish  by Aharon Appelfeld. Translated from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter. (Schocken, 231 pp. $23.95) “Good literature,” the Hebrew writer Aharon Appelfeld once told

FILMS For My Father aka Weekend in Tel Aviv A young West Bank Palestinian infiltrates Tel Aviv with orders to blow himself up in the

The Golem legend began in Prague, and an exhibit at the Czech Republic’s premier cultural venue explores the man credited with creating the myth. In

Enterprising Jews are still heading West to this great pioneering city, where they have met with opportunity and success for more than 150 years. When

The morning sun streams through the windows that frame the Mount of Olives to the east and the hills of Bethlehem to the south. Photographs

Who would have thought a book of prayers would become a best seller? Yet A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book, edited by Aliza Lavie (Spiegel & Grau/Random