Sometimes in life, and in history, it is time to step back and reflect. I have seen five rounds of conflict since I moved to Israel, all of them inconclusive. For me this raises the question –...
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Rabbi’s Son Bought for Over $700K: Results from Sotheby’s Judaica Auction
This week in Manhattan, Sotheby’s held two auctions of Judaica and Art. One of the most valuable items was a small oil painting, measuring 6 inches by 7 inches, of the son of a wonder or...
It’s Raining Films: Israeli Films at Over 3 Fests
The 13th Annual Other Israel Film Festival arrived in Manhattan this week, filled with films and inspiring, and uncomfortable discussions. So Jewish, no? Equal doses of discomfort and entertainment;...
TJS S3E18 The Eichmann Trial
The Holocaust was so dark and vast that Jews around the world struggled to integrate it into their consciousness, despite the hundreds of thousands of survivors in their midst. One of the turning...
TJS S3E17: The Kastner affair
The memory of the the Holocaust is dark and traumatic enough that it threatens to overwhelm even the light of the present. Here is the first part of an exploration of Holocaust memory in...
TJS S3E16 Israel at age ten
Life offers so few opportunities to stop and reflect that we need to seize every chance. What better time to look back at the questions with which we began this season than in Israel’s tenth...