A modern-day tale of love and suspense
The spy who loved
A Jew, a woman and Churchill’s favorite spy: Christine Granville, flesh-and-blood hero
Before the revolution
Israeli director Dan Shadur talks about his new documentary about life under the Shah
Doing justice to Josephus
For most of Jewish history, Flavius Josephus was the odd man out
Reading Persian in Jerusalem
As Israel and Iran trade threats, first Iranian novels appear in Hebrew
Animating the Talmud
The Talmud has never looked so good
Hanin Zoabi, Balad, and the Jewish vote
MK Hanin Zoabi has had a tough term
Zoroastrian Exegetical Parables in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār
The parable has received little attention as a form in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature.
How Israel’s Arab citizens vote
The numbers are dire and it is not hard to understand why
Howard Zinn
At age 86, Howard Zinn destroyed history
A one-woman show that projects politics
For Jerusalem-based artist Li Lorian, puppet shows are not just for kids
The Afghan geniza
The road between the Afghani cities of Ghazni and Bamiyan is fraught with danger
Reimagining Jewish pilgrimage
There is a passage in Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ new memoir, “A Sense of Direction,” that will make any secularist smile
Beauty in a bulldozer
A Palestinian artist turns tools of destruction into works of terrifying beauty
City pirates
Shoedei Yam, a new Jerusalem gallery, presents art with attitude and a sense of history
Jonathan Kis-Lev’s Jerusalems
Entering the Art and Soul Gallery on Shlomtzion Ha-Malka Street, you exit Jerusalem
The fake fire
If the Dar-e-Mehr were the world, the fire altar would be its center
Expatriate act
Maya Arad breaks ground as an Israeli writer—by living in America
Chaya
Chaya can mean shadow, darkness, obscurity, or a ghostly apparition.
Gay orthodoxy
Trembling Before G-d begins with ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing sack-cloth
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