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The beauty routine

Discover new ways to look your best and have fun this autumn – and start planning your next vacation.

Book Review: 'Good Heart’ has good intentions

Alan Newman’s book intertwined stories of Christian and Jewish families and their shared connection to Israel.

Book Review: Getting our godliness back

Shay’s charming, thoughtful, thought-provoking new book required even more chutzpah.

Israelis and Canadians plan partnership in medicinal marijuana

PlantExt needs Netanyahu to allow export of product

Parashat Lech Lecha: Boxing ring or harmonious symphony?

This question is significant not only historically but also to our understanding of the story.

German people of the Israeli book

A German-Israeli book story

Why Ari Fuld was a hero?

Ari was a passionate Zionist and lover of the Jewish people. But what separated Ari from the rest of us was that he actually did something about it.

A story of returning home: Choosing their path

After two more children were born, it was time to return, and the Brahas came back to Israel from Milan in 2012.

A lifelong passion for writing

The tisch: Schneerson or Schneersohn: What’s in a name?

Parashat Noah: The answer to the unasked question

Unanswered mysteries

Kate Atkinson’s latest novel features a British woman unable to escape her past as a World War II spy

Shared interests?

Professor Amy Kaplan explores how American support for Israel developed and calls for it to come to an end

Behind Kuwait's rising book censorship

Despite a constitution that protects freedom of expression, many Kuwaitis fear that an Islamist bloc in parliament will impose stricter bans

Inside Eitanim psychiatric hospital

A mother’s candid firsthand account of her bipolar daughter’s stay – and her own battle to cope

Do men have more trouble crying than women?

While it may be true that men cry less than women do, they certainly can enjoy the same health and psychological benefits if they get the help to cry when the need arises

A sprawling journey through time

Jill Lepore works to condense 240 years of American history into one volume.

Finding a universal truth

Ken Krimstein’s graphic memoir of Hannah Arendt offers a rose-colored view of the philosopher’s work.

Walks and waters in Ein Hemed

All year long, a number of springs flow through the Ein Hemed reserve until they reach pools, which are surrounded by picnic tables and shaded green areas.

Further fulfillment of Herzl’s Utopia

The first electric train reaches Jerusalem.

Finding Florentin in Bergen, Norway

While Oslo houses The Center of Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Norway has a long history of Jewish resistance.

RE-SPECS yourself

Since 2008, RE-SPECS has collected more than 20,000 eyeglass frames and sold over 8,000 pairs.

Sukkot: Coming down to earth

If Yom Kippur takes you up to heaven, Sukkot brings you down to earth.

Simhat Torah: Ending and beginning – Torah without stop

In this way, we acknowledge that even if we completed the yearly cycle of Torah reading, we still have much more learning in store.

The state of Judaism

Jack Wertheimer takes a close look at the practice and status of the Jewish religion in America today.