'Ida': An exploration of faith and identity
A sheltered Polish orphan about to become a nun learns that she has an aunt, and that she’s from a ...
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Editorial: Talking with Gilad Shalit’s dad
Young Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was abducted by Hamas militants in a raid across the Gaza-Israel border, on June ...
A famous (unknown) author
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, by George Prochnik, Other Press, 390 pages, $27.95 Reviewed ...
Israel’s missed opportunity
The Hamas-Fatah reconciliation pact paves the way for Israel to make a deal with the entire Palestinian polity By MOSHE ...
Reaching customers in the mobile world
Shay Goldberg, of Israel-based iApps Technologies, spoke in Minneapolis about the importance of every company to have an app By ...
Around the world in 80 knishes
“Who doesn’t love a knish?” asks Joan Rivers, in one of the epigraphs for Knish: In Search of the Jewish ...
Get free passes to 'Obvious Child' preview
American Jewish World invites you and a guest to an advance screening of Obvious Child 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27 at ...
The AJW wants you
Learn about the glamorous newspaper business from the inside! The American Jewish World is looking for two interns this ...
ADL survey: 26 percent of people hate Jews
The Anti-Defamation League’s largest-ever worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes will serve as a baseline moving forward By URIEL HEILMAN NEW ...
Scholars seek Hebrew Bible’s original text — but did one ever exist?
The first volume of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition is due out later this year By ANTHONY WEISS LOS ...
