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On the front lines of Israel’s weaponry

Jonathan Kirsch February 22, 2017

Not exactly ‘happy,’ but handling depression

Naomi Pfefferman February 9, 2017

Two Journal writers shine, in poetry and prose

Jonathan Kirsch February 9, 2017

Insider puts on display his life ‘loving museums’

Jonathan Kirsch January 27, 2017

‘The Genius of Judaism’: An excerpt

Jewish Journal January 11, 2017

I remember a preface I wrote thirty years ago … for a book of photographs devoted to the men in black of Mea Shearim.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: A calling to see — and write about — the truth

Jonathan Kirsch January 11, 2017

The peripatetic philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was en route from Iraq to his home in Paris when the Journal caught up with him by phone during a stopover in Morocco and spoke about a wide range of topics, from the election of Donald Trump to the successes of Zionism.

Bernard-Henri Lévy bares his Jewish soul

Jonathan Kirsch January 11, 2017

Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.

WATCH: Reflections on the Berlin Intifada

Orit Arfa December 21, 2016

How 486 frames transformed the Zapruder Family

Jonathan Kirsch December 21, 2016

“Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film” by Alexandra Zapruder (Twelve) is a wholly unique family memoir and a fascinating monograph about one of the most consequential artifacts in recorded history, the 486 frames of 8 mm color movie film that Abraham Zapruder shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.