How a Secular Woman from Tel Aviv Rose to the Top of Israel’s National-Religious Political Bloc
The story of Ayelet Shaked.
August 8, 2019
Tracing One Jewish Joke Through Its Many Tellings
“I am tired and thirsty, I must have . . .”
Stuart Schoffman has traced the lineage of his favorite Jewish joke to a compilation, The Book of Jokes and Wit, put together in 1922 by Alter Druyanov, a Russian Jew who collected thousands of such jokes and translated them into Hebrew. Although Schoffman doesn’t find many of the jokes funny, a few hold up, including his favorite:
August 8, 2019
Tracing One Jewish Joke Through Its Many Tellings
“I am tired and thirsty, I must have . . .”
Hamas’s Plans for the New Ceasefire? Loading Up on Guns and Missiles
Peace is just a chance to reload.
What Happened When We Tried to Count the Number of Reform Jews in Israel
Reform might function as a political identifier there, not a religious one.
Avraham Sutzkever’s Astonishing Escape from the Vilna Ghetto
The great poet safely traversed a minefield by counting in poetic meters.