BDS? There’s an App for That Now!
Facebook meets Tinder meets Pokemon Go meets Spy vs. Spy meets Hasbara: it’s a new government funding app meant to undo BDS.
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Movin’ Pictures
The radical, political ‘Cinematheque’ in Tel Aviv seems to be going mainstream. Is that what an avant garde art emporium is for?
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The Great Jewish-American Intellectual You Don’t Know
Dr. Mark Raider discusses Hayim Greenberg, a legendary yet all but forgotten mid-20th century Jewish-American essayist and thinker.
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A Tale of Two ‘One Percents’
A study found that Israel has two ‘one-percents,’ an economic elite and a political elite, each screwing us in their own way.
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When in Romania, Do as the Romanian Jews
Dr. Felicia Waldman, author of “Tales and Traces of Sephardic Bucharest,” discusses the history of Romanian Jewry on the cusp between East and West.
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Jews with Javelins!
The Maccabiah Games have inexplicably (but charmingly) survived the years, like a living time capsule.
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Praying to No God
What does the surprising rise of “secular prayer” among Israeli Jews say about the state of our souls?
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The Menorah: A Most Emblematic Emblem
Professor Steven Fine, author of “The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel,” analyzes the millennia-long history of the “Jewish holy grail.”
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From Board Room to Barricades: The Unlikely New Leader of Israel’s Left
Avi Gabbay emerged from obscurity to head the Labor Party and, perforce, the Israeli Left in a shocking upset. What the hell just happened?
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Peddlers on the Road: Patterns of Jewish Migration to the New World
Professor Hasia Diner on her latest book, “Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way.”
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