Features
Palestinian reporter fights for rights
Ben Sales, JTAOct 25, 2012
TEL AVIV She cant stay out of trouble there, but Asmaa al-Ghoul always comes back to Gaza. A secular, feminist Palestinian journalist, al-Ghoul, 30, has been...
Beit Yellin: ‘Modern’ Israeli history
Edgar Asher, AshernetOct 15, 2012
BEIT YELLIN Israel is one of the richest archaeological countries in the world. Notwithstanding its small size, new and exiting finds are discovered regularly...
A Tel Aviv student’s 1963 notebook sets a stranger on a search
Hillel Kuttler, JTAOct 11, 2012
BALTIMORE Four plain, brown notebooks among an array of colorful cards, games and pictures began Penny Barsimantovs quest into the past. The researcher for a...
In Dutch translation of Talmud, one man’s unique revenge against the Nazis
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 04, 2012
LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands When Jacob Nathan de Leeuwe found himself returning nearly two decades ago from his home in a suburb of Amsterdam to this isolated idyll he...
Helping abused is a ‘totally Jewish value’
JTASep 27, 2012
TULSA Wearing a tattered house robe and with a cigarette dangling from her hand, the pregnant woman in a low-income neighborhood opened the door. Would she cut down...
Etrog farm
Chavie Lieber, JTASep 27, 2012
SCOTTSDALE Matt Bycer is like any other 33-year-old attorney who wakes up at the crack of dawn to exercise. Except that rather than sweating to a P90X regimen, Bycer,...
Jews in the Bible Belt: ‘What church do y’all go to?’
JTASep 20, 2012
CHATTANOOGA Sometimes, Benjamin Rosenthal thinks about leaving the small town of Indianola, Miss., pop. 11,000, where he spent most of his life. He wants to go...
Crippling terrorism in the courts
Andrea JacobsSep 13, 2012
ROSH HASHANAHSECTION A ATTORNEY-activist Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, head of Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center in Tel Aviv and one of the most famous women in Israel, promptly...
Conversos, conversation, l’chayim in Jamaica
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 13, 2012
ROSH HASHANAHSECTION A JEWMAICA? Can it be? What do Jews and this famous resort country have in common? It all goes back to the familiar narrative of Jewish history. The...
Jewish refugees from Arab countries push for recognition
Ben Sales, JTASep 06, 2012
TEL AVIV Naim Reuven was only 8 when he left Baghdad more than 60 years ago, but he still remembers going with his father to catch fish in the […]
