Literature

Khamenei’s elimination: Will assassination become the norm for regime change? - opinion

Will the targeted killing in which Israel excelled – and is morally justified – return to haunt it as a threatening boomerang?

A woman holds a picture of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026
Entrance hall of the Supreme Court, decorated with a section of mosaic pavement recovered from the 5th-to-8th-century Hamat Gader synagogue, near the Golan Heights.

'Rogue Justice': Exploring how Israel’s top court turned into a political powerhouse - review

EMILY’S JOURNEY in the land of doors. Artwork by Orit Magia

'Emily Saw a Door': Learning to create spaces for each other with creativity, acceptance - review

From right: 2025 Sapir Prize debut winner Roni Partchek, honored for her novel “Sitara,” with Mifal HaPais CEO Adv. Beni Dreyfus, judging committee chair Dr. Ruth Calderon, Mifal HaPais board chair Itzik Lari, and 2025 Sapir Prize winner Amir Harash, awarded for “Bereavement and Failure and Zombies.

Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award


Mifal Hapayis names five finalists for prestigious literature award

The winner will receive a prize of NIS 180,000, and the winning book will be translated into Arabic as well as another foreign language.

  Gail Hareven, finalist and a previous winner of the Sapir Prize for Literature

From guerillas to Guernica: Tracing evolution of war and its lexicon

As war has played such a significant part of human history, it is a theme that figures largely in the realms of art, literature, and film.

 Mikhail Kalashnikov

'Abraham': A literary reading of the Bible's famous story - review

In some circles, literary readings of the Bible are seen as controversial, but good literary analysis can enhance the Bible’s message about God and human beings.

 ABRAHAM AND the King of Sodom, Genesis 14:22.

UPenn to host slew of ‘antisemitic’ speakers at Palestine Writes literature festival

A number of the speakers to appear at the UPenn event

Roger Waters, draped with a Palestinian keffiyeh

A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author’s broken Cuban-Jewish family

Three generations of her family, beginning with her paternal grandfather’s arrival from Transylvania, lived in Cuba — which was still taking in Jews when the United States had closed its doors.

 A street in Havana, Cuba.

Beloved Jewish children's writer Mary Ann Hoberman dies at age 92

She co-founded and performed with “The Pocket People,” a children’s theater group, and “Women’s Voices,” a group giving dramatized poetry readings.

 Mary Ann Hoberman was the author of dozens of children books, including "Strawberry Hill" and “All Kinds of Families!”

The 11th international writers festival celebrates the power of the written word


Roald Dahl Museum installs plaque to acknowledge author's antisemitism

The famed children's book author had once famously said “Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

Roald Dahl

It’s ‘Hanukkah in the summer’ as New Yorkers raid the Jewish Book Council’s shelves

Jewish Book Council’s annual “Raid the Shelves” event, which, for $25, allows members of the public to take home as many of the nonprofit’s spare books as they can carry.

 CHILDREN BROWSE books at the Cairo International Book Fair, with the participation of about 51 countries in the 54th edition of this fair, in Egypt, Jan. 31.

New program aims at fostering the art of Hebrew translation