How should Jews be thinking about the Syrian refugee crisis? Let us start with this: Today’s Jews are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of refugees.
The title of this ambitious, compassionate tale of four women who love, lose and rededicate themselves to life refers to a “solemn, ancient, sacred” burial ritual, a hesed…
In her new memoir, Rita Gabis tells of unearthing facts about her once-beloved grandfather, the chief of police from 1941 to 1943 under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian…
A desert capital for successive waves of rulers and armies over thousands of years, Beersheba is today the metropolitan center of the Negev, rich with commerce and high-tech.