Female authors like Ronit Matalon and others are exploring the confluence of the public and the personal in stories of Israeli life.

Literary critic and linguist Joseph Lowin analyzes eight contemporary Israeli writers through the books they have written over the past four decades.

In soccer- and basketball-obsessed Israel, children of foreign workers are learning baseball, America’s favorite pastime.

Israeli activists and women’s groups are fighting to make mikves welcoming places for women who come from the entire spectrum of religious observance.

It is one of the more common sights in certain parts of Jerusalem. A man or woman standing on the side of the street asking for money.

Every day across the globe a new call is announced to boycott, divest and sanction Israel—to isolate the Jewish state. Student organizations in England and

At the entrance to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, along Israel’s border with Gaza, there is a white plaster-cast sculpture of three men and two women. They

In Israel as well as in other parts of the world cars that inch along crowded highways, sit in traffic jams and spew out noxious gases that pollute…