Interview with Daniel Libeskind Wowed by the example of Frank Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim, museums around the world have raced to commission brilliant, experimental architects to build structures at least as noteworthy as their collections. Architect Daniel Libeskind has ... [Read more]

Which Birthright? Why Choosing Home over Homeland May Not Be So Bad Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, American Jewry has been privy to many (perhaps too many) sociological surveys taking its collective pulse. Surveys have covered everything from attitudes toward intermarriage, Jewish ... [Read more]

Homeland for the Taking: Birthright Israel Young adults today aren't satisfied with a status quo existence. We want to find our true calling, and hopefully wealth and stability along the way. Unfortunately, real life isn't always conducive to finding the answers we seek. ... [Read more]

Review: The Counterfeiters Markovics plays Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, a character based on the real-life Russian Jew and world-class counterfeiter Salomon Smolianoff who had the misfortune of being captured by the Nazis during World War II. Like the real-life ... [Read more]

POEM: "All" by Agi Mishol Life that swirls in the scraps of swallows in the early evening, reaching out red from within the flower, sprawling lazily along the entire length of the cat, barking and then listening for a moment to itself within the dog, fluttering in the ... [Read more]

Israel at Sixty Qassam rockets rain down on Negev towns; suicide bombings have reappeared; Israel is maintaining a blockade on the Gaza Strip with periodic invasions that are growing in severity; Hezbollah is re-arming itself in a chaotic Lebanon; and the fear ... [Read more]

Roundtable: The Synagogue/ Israeli Politics Mash-Up Zeek Contributing Editor (and Velveteen Rabbi) Rachel Barenblat asked Rabbis Camille Angel (Reform), Lynn Gottlieb (Renewal), Fred Guttman (Reform), and Meyer Schiller (Orthodox/Hasidic) to discuss the impact of the Israeli state and its ... [Read more]

Review: Lucette Lagnado's The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit Lucette Lagnado is this year's recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her family memoir is reviewed by Tamar Yellin who won last year's prize for fiction. Although only established in 2006, the Sami Rohr Prize has ... [Read more]

Interview with Beaufort Director Joseph Cedar Towards the end of Joseph Cedar's Beaufort, the first Israeli film nominated for an Academy Award since 1984, an activist opposed to the war in Lebanon excoriates himself on a television talk show for the death of his son, Ziv, a bomb ... [Read more]

Three Poems by Rivka Miriam HIS GRANDFATHER'S FACE And when the man saw that his face was the face of his grandfather he began speaking to himself out loud across the generations and his wife breathing in their wide bed made her eyes slits ... [Read more]

Fiction: An Excerpt from Nava Semel's IsraIsland Nava Semel's IsraIsland imagines in one of its three sections what would have happened had the historical figure of Major Mordecai Manuel Noah, the most important American Jew in the first half of the nineteenth century, succeeded in ... [Read more]

Interview with Israeli Author Nava Semel Journalist and playwright Mordecai Manuel Noah's proto-Zionist scheme to settle a Jewish colony on Grand Island in New York met with resistance from both Jewish and Christian leaders when it was proposed in 1825. Though it sounds ... [Read more]