A dispatch from the front lines of the racially charged, vocal, violent, identitarian, anti-Zionist, anti-oppression, anti-Semitic, cultural touchstone battles over Jews, Israel, and the future of ethno-nationalist states
How finding my father’s 70-year-old correspondence changed the way I remembered him
The 75th Anniversary of the Palmach, the elite forces of the Haganah
The famed hairdresser, who died Wednesday, fought against British fascists and then for Israel’s independence
How Naomi Frankel’s life and work mirrored modern Jewish history
Rescuing refugees from a Mandate-era detention camp
Hebrew has no continuous present tense, but Boris Carmi’s images of Israel’s early days have the power to stop time, a friend recalls.