Walter Schwarz: The last passenger ship out of Genoa
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor "I was a Ritchie Boy," Walter Schwarz wrote for American Jewish World on Oct....
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Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land: Exile and restoration
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Oxford's new History of the Holy Land is an ambitious, erudite and handsome, if incomplete achievement....
Jewish Humor: Stand-up, Simpsons and super-heroes
AJW Staff Report The Twin Cities Jewish Humor Festival is now 10 years old. Started by Fringe Festival and Twin...
Outside Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue, Spanish olive trees endure northern winters
by CNAAN LIPHSHIZ AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Each year at the height of winter, city workers descend on the square opposite...
Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art
by ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with...