A. B. Yehoshua

In the 30 years I’ve lived here, I have never failed to visit the biannual International Book Festival in Jerusalem. It is second only to the…

Israel’s most prestigious book festival kicks off on Sunday with a ceremony honoring prolific English author Ian McEwan with the Jerusalem…

THE CHASM between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer grows ever wider – but there’s one commonality that, no matter what,…

The Shalom Tower, Tel Aviv’s first skyscraper, stands awkwardly at the top of Rehov Herzl, looming over the city like the disembodied leg of a giant…

2010 was a banner year for both high art and low comedy in the Israeli movie industry. Israel got its third Oscar nomination in a row – for Scandar…

SOMEWHERE IN AN ISOLATED part of post-Soviet Romania, two Israelis are seated in a dining hall in a nuclear-bombproof shelter deep underground. One…

FOUR AND A HALF DECADES ago, in 1965, a bureaucrat in Israel, then a fledgling state trying to make its way in a hostile region and a world being…

The Lo Bashamayim (Not in Heaven) Festival opens today at Kibbutz Kfar Blum in the Upper Galilee for three days of experiential Jewish and Israeli…

It is hard to imagine that segregation on buses exists anywhere in the democratic world in the 21st century. But Israel is an exception: For close to…

Ask Martin Kramer if spearheading the country's first liberal arts college isn't a daunting - maybe unachievable - goal in these hard times, and he…

Surrounded by ancient trees and a stone wall, as if enclosed in a bubble of a lost time, stands the ’Jesus Help’ hospital (its original German name,…

Daniel (Danny) Bloch, one of the country's most prominent journalists who died suddenly of a heart attack in Tel Aviv on Friday at the age of 68, was…

After a four-year legal struggle, the High Court of Justice has overseen an agreement whereby the state commits to develop a national park near the…

IT WAS already 8 p.m., the starting time for the official Fourth of July ceremony at the residence of US Ambassador James Cunningham and his wife…

"The one thing we don't talk about here is what type of country we are creating," says Shalem Center senior vice president and senior fellow Daniel…

Both Jewish law and rational analysis should instruct Israel's cabinet to conclude that this country must under no circumstances release hundreds…

David Ehrlich has carved a special niche for himself on the Jerusalem scene. Born and raised in Ramat Gan, he served as an artillery officer in the…

The UK's Jewish Book Week 2009 kicked off in London on Saturday night with writer Amos Oz. Interviewed by Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, Oz…

As pleased as I was to read Asaf Romirowsky's positive assessment of Georgetown University's Program for Jewish Civilization ("Balancing the Bias,"…

As pleased as I was to read Asaf Romirowsky's positive assessment of Georgetown University's Program for Jewish Civilization ("Balancing the Bias,"…