About 20 years ago the Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua wrote an essay called "Exile as a Neurotic Solution," in which he endeavored to explain why so many Diaspora Jews, for many centuries and in our own day, have avoided coming to live in the Land of Israel.
We couldn\’t help but notice that some of your most controversial last-minute pardons and commutations went to our fellow Jews.
A lawsuit filed against IBM for allegedly assisting the Nazis indicates a renewed focus on the potential culpability of American companies that helped Germany during World War II.
Virtually all Jews locked up in concentration camps, ghettos and similar places of incarceration during the Holocaust may now apply for compensation from a newly created $5 billion German foundation.
A national unity government appears increasingly likely as envoys from the Likud and Labor parties work to overcome some snags in negotiations.
Sure, you can find Jerusalem on a map of the world. But can you find Virtual Jerusalem? As of late January of this year, that piece of online real estate is housed in Los Angeles.
Memo to first-time fathers: If your baby is crying, she\’s probably wet. Or tired. Or hungry. Or angry. Or confused about what\’s happening in the big, new, strange world she lives in.
When Natan and Tali Slifkin were married in Los Angeles last year, their friends turned up in Disneyland animal suits. It was not your classic Orthodox wedding.
I\’m recently divorced (after more than 30 years of marriage), an educated and, I thought, pretty savvy woman. I have been dating a charming man now for almost two months. Recently we became intimate, and of course I expected our relationship to change.
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