For Polish social psychologist Michal Bilewicz, the Righteous Among the Nations serve as a case study for human behavior at times of great distress – and this group also affects the way the Holocaust is studied and remembered.
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Dr Yehuda Mirsky, associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and author of the first biography of the maverick theologian and spiritual father of the settler movement to appear in English in over half a century.
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As Passover approaches, a new report finds that almost a million Israelis are going hungry.
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The Founder of Hebrew Spanish Poetry, Dunash ben Labrat, also made your ulpan studies possible. He was the first to distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs in Hebrew, and to catalog verbs by the 3-letter roots.
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In the course of her work for Toyota, Betsy Benjaminson noticed some discrepancy between corporate correspondence and the technical manuals, and became persuaded that the corporation was hiding the truth about what was causing the acceleration defects. After receiving legal advice from a law firm, Benjaminson began to leak the information to the media, thrusting her into the limelight. This is her story.
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The army is one of the most masculine institutions in modern societies, which makes it a perfect target for a feminist critique.
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Why do Israeli parents let their kids play with fire and rusty nails and take candy from strangers?
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We Need the Bread, Man!
Should stores in Jewish neighborhoods should sell leavened bread on Passover?
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