It is a hot summer morning in the hills of Jerusalem. The sun has barely arched over the horizon and already the heat is stultifying.

In the season of atonement, what is our soul’s aspiration? How do we understand the responsibility of return, the task of teshuva with which we have

Film Lebanon Samuel Maoz portrays the terror of four young tank soldiers in the First Lebanon War. The action is either inside the tank or

New books are shedding light on our understanding of Jew hatred and the Holocaust. Here is a selection that looks at anti-Semitism in England as

Only when I spend the High Holy Days outside of Israel do I realize that there is something unique and incomparable in the way they

Return Trip  Centuries after the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, a descendant of a family forcibly converted to Catholicism has returned to the country

Exhibits Lox With Black Beans & Rice: Portraits of Cuban Jews in South Florida In 30 large-format candid images and brief oral histories, Randi Sidman-Moore

Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel  by Yann Martel. (Spiegel & Grau, 224 pp. $24) To get something out of Beatrice and Virgil, a reader must engage