Ear­li­er this week, Eric Gart­man posit­ed how and why his­to­ry can and should be both infor­ma­tion­al and inter­est­ing. He is blog­ging here all week as part of the…

Ear­li­er this week, Falafel Nation author Yael Raviv ques­tioned whether a shared cui­sine can real­ly bring about peace. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the…

Yael Raviv is the author of Falafel Nation: Cui­sine and the Mak­ing of Nation­al Iden­ti­ty in Israel. She will be blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinFour­teen years after its orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in Eng­lish trans­la­tion, Etgar Keret’s sem­i­nal col­lec­tion of short sto­ries was reis­sued…

by Yos­si Klein HaleviMichael Oren is the author of three New York Times best­sellers, includ­ing his lat­est book, Ally: My Jour­ney Across the Amer­i­ca-Israeli Divide, an…

Excerpt­ed from Killing a King: The Assas­si­na­tion of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remak­ing of Israel by Dan Ephron.Yitzhak Rabin woke up before sev­en the morn­ing of Novem­ber…