Amos Oz

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…

British author Ian McEwan joined the weekly protest in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, just two days before he was set to…

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…

Spending his days teaching English to the children of refugees and foreign workers – and taking in the fine arts offerings of Tel Aviv – former New…

The normally placid surroundings of the Tomb of Simon the Just have been shaken in recent months by regular protest in which moral fervor and…

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…

There’s an old joke that people who come to Israel for two weeks go home and write a book; those who come for three months go home and write an…

Playwright Shmuel Hasfari threatened to sue the Cameri theater company if a play that he wrote is performed at the Ariel Cultural Center, Army Radio…

Israel Beiteinu on Sunday announced its decision to act in order to stop government funding for artists who signed the letter published on Friday…

Three days before the Ariel Cultural Center is set to open in the northern West Bank settlement, artists and academics published an open letter on…

‘It’s a story about people who are struggling to be who they are,” says director Galya Oz of her latest documentary, Jews Now (Yehudim Akshav), a…

Afeature-length major motion picture starring Israel’s ancient capital city is to be filmed next fall and released to theaters, DVD and video on…

Several film festivals, in Israel and around the world, are offering some programs worth a look. The 6th International Children’s Film Festival…

Lihong Song is no stranger to the calamity-filled narrative of Jewish history. It was while he was studying Josephus – the ancient Jewish historian…

FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF the Zionist movement, and with growing intensity ever since the 1967 Six Day War, two contrary strains of Zionism have been…

BERLIN — Germany's book publishers' association said Sunday that it had awarded Israeli author David Grossman its 2010 Peace Prize in honor of his…

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, Peru, won…

The termination of the Education Ministry’s chief scientist was not related to his personal beliefs and recent statements doubting evolution and…

More than 150 film and theater artists have signed a letter of support for Israeli actors who refused to perform in the West Bank city of Ariel, a…

The anger directed at the inauguration of a new cultural center in Ariel with cultural figures announcing a boycott, is motivated more by the…