There is an odd footnote to the many summers I spent in the tiny upstate village of Tannersville, NY. On the side of a backroad, framed by imposing peaks of the Catskill Mountains, is the barren site … more

About 30 years ago, I ran into an old BBC colleague while on a reporting trip in the Balkans. After spending an evening drinking in a local bar with a few other journalists, we walked back to the … more

The 12-day air campaign against Iran carried out by Israel last June, and then eventually joined by the United States, changed the strategic equation in the Middle East. But as much as that is an … more

Last week, Israel received the remains of Ran Gvili, the final hostage whose body had been held in Gaza since October 7. I watched people celebrating, removing their yellow ribbons, marking the … more

Much has been written about most family relationships. There are books about fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, and mothers and sons and daughters. Many volumes have been written about … more

Most readers of this column are likely familiar with this week’s title as belonging to a brief but powerful and yet controversial work written by the incredible Rambam, Moses Maimonides … more

T he revelation at Mount Sinai — the central episode not only of the parsah of Yisro, but of Judaism as a whole — was unique in the religious history of humankind. Other faiths (Christianity and … more

Every year on Tu B’Shevat, tens of thousands of new trees take root across Israel. Jews from all parts of society and all stages of life participate to mark the day commonly explained as the New … more

Facing History and Ourselves has added the young-adult novel “The Assignment” by author Liza Wiemer to its newly released Teaching Holocaust Literature Collection, a set of classroom resources … more

A 1786 glass tumbler associated with the Prague burial society offers two very different views. Clad in long black coats with white pleated collars and flat black hats, male members of the … more