A Great Civil Rights Partnership
A Moment Photo Symposium in Honor of the Struggle for Racial Equality ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
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An Activist Remembers Her Civil Rights Journey
Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram recalls her role in the civil rights movement on the 50-year anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. ...
The Other “Woman in Gold”
In August 1903, a 22-year-old Viennese Jewish socialite by the name of Adele Bloch-Bauer wrote to a friend that the renowned Austrian painter Gustav Klimt had agreed to paint her portrait. It was to be a commission from her husband, sugar industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer....
A Matter of Dreams
The education revolution among Bedouin women has opened up opportunities previous generations could never have imagined. But tribal traditions that limit their freedom—including polygamy—still prevail....
The Bedouin Dilemma
Struggles over land & identity are at the heart of growing tensions between the Israeli government & its once-nomadic citizens. ...
Talk of the Table // Shakshuka
For years, falafel was Israel’s iconic food, its global culinary ambassador. But in recent years, another Israeli dish with working-class roots has become a major player in the game of street-food diplomacy: the savory tomato and egg mixture called shakshuka....
Opinion // The Great Haredi Cop-out
With the draft law rolled back, Israel's Ultra-Orthodox aren't likely to serve in the military....
Wieseltier on Oren: “[I’m] Outraged and Offended”
"I don’t take kindly to being called anti-Semitic and I don’t take kindly to having Jewish self-hatred attributed to me. I don’t take kindly to it at all."...
How The First World War Changed Jewish History
Professor Daniel Schwartz on how fears of Jewish disloyalty fueled deportations and massacres in Eastern Europe during and after the war, how the Jewish Legion helped conquer Ottoman Palestine for the British, and why World War I was a turning point for European Jewry. ...