Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.

Each week Fathom writers will recommend five Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. Read previous recommendations here. Jo-Ann Mort recommends Emile Habibi’s ...

Yossi Klein Halevi is senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the author of the recent New York Times bestseller, ‘Letters to my Palestinian Neighbour’. In conversation with ...

Fatma Abosheab, aged 20, who oversees Communal Resilience at the New Dawn in the Negev. Photo taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, courtesy of New Dawn in the Negev.

Michael Yudkin is an emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded in 1915, and one of its first acts was to ...

Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...

Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...

Samuel Nurding: Why did you decide to write a study of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas? Grant Rumley: We decided to write the book after the 2014 peace talks, driven by the US Secretary ...

The translation of Zeruya Shalev’s 2015 novel Pain should be the moment she assumes ‘her rightful place in the English-speaking world’s literary imagination alongside Amos Oz, David Grossman, and ...

I took this innocent photo right before I turned off my phone for the Sabbath last night. The universe of war must have known that technically, we did not need to sit on our rooftop Sukka on the last ...

Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Emirita Professor of Government at Smith College. The Idea of the Jewish State by Ben Halpern (her teacher at Brandeis) ...

Gaza’s hospitals were used to conceal hostages. Who knew what and when? Whether hospital staff were involved, and whether other actors were informed of these events, including UN agencies and NGOs, ...