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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Dec 4, 2024, 2:55 PM

Those days when American Jews all read the same books

The mid-20th century cultural tastes of American Jews are explored in three new books: 'Postwar Stories by Rachel Gordan, 'Write Like a Man' by Ronnie Grinberg and 'Carrying a Big Schtick' by Miriam Eve Mora. (Oxford University Press; Princeton University Press; Wayne State University Press)

On three new Jewish books about the Jewish books that helped define the mid-20th century American Jewish community, and why there's no such canon today

Dec 4, 2024, 4:07 AM

Why did Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman change his rhetoric about Israel?

(AFP Contributor)

Normalization may be the long-term plan, but he's being cautious, given anger about Gaza, the US political shifts, and his need for domestic stability

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Dec 3, 2024, 12:59 PM

Gulf countries talk like Iran, act like Israel

A handout photo released by the press office of the Emir of Kuwait Diwan shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud attending the 45th Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Kuwait City of December 1, 2024. (Emir of Kuwait Diwan / AFP)

The GCC rhetoric on Israel masks its true aims to decouple Syria's Assad and the Islamic Republic and declaw Hezbollah in Lebanon

Debra Weiner-Solomont

Dec 3, 2024, 1:42 AM

Words no army parent wants to hear: ‘Get to the hospital now’

Bellinson/Rabin Medical Center. (Wikipedia)

My son has a hard road ahead, but his deep friendships and our new support network have already worked wonders toward healing

Dec 2, 2024, 3:57 PM

Why I just subscribed to Haaretz

The headlines of newspapers at a shop in Jerusalem, July 25, 2023, a day after the 'reasonableness bill' passed in the Knesset. (Chaim Goldbeg/Flash90)

The government's multi-pronged assault on the independence of Israel's news media takes a page out of the authoritarian playbook

Yonatan Freeman

Dec 2, 2024, 2:29 PM

No cause for alarm: ICC decisions won’t change Israel’s reality

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); An exterior view of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong); Then-defense minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

The world needs Israel in the fight against the radical forces (read: Iran) that threaten regional and global stability

Dec 1, 2024, 3:12 PM

Intersecting paths at Har Herzl

Har Herzl - picture by Romi

The grieving couple that happened to visit their son’s grave during another funeral seemed like strangers at first. And then they weren't

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Dec 1, 2024, 12:09 AM

Judaism without God

One cannot build a Jewish future on the ashes of Auschwitz. (iStock)

Those without faith must learn and live the commandments as a revolution, as a protest to the commonplace, as an act of defiance

Nov 30, 2024, 9:54 AM

Lessons of a 100–year-old postcard from an imaginary land

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow and used with his permission.

Where in the world is West Refaim and why did it have its own stamp? Riddles from back when the Jewish imagination went postal

Marc J. Rosenstein

Nov 29, 2024, 3:59 PM

From the river to the sea

Today's apocalyptic vision of total victory must make way for hard decisions, arduous negotiations, and courageous leadership

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