My Grandfather the Zionist
He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?
He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?
Abraham Riesman New York Jun 2021 30min Permalink
A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.
Rachel Kushner n+1 May 2021 20min Permalink
The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.
Amos Barshad Rest of World Mar 2021 Permalink
When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.
Ellen Willis Rolling Stone Apr 1977 1h20min Permalink
Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?
Nathan Thrall The Guardian Aug 2018 30min Permalink
An essay on how we misremember our youth.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Saveur Jul 2017 Permalink
To support their families back home, women from the Philippines have found work and a new way of life in Israel. But at what price?
Ruth Margalit New York Times Magazine May 2017 20min Permalink
After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.
Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Nov 2016 30min Permalink
A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.
Tom Bissell Harper's Jul 2016 40min Permalink
After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.
M.R. O'Conner The Atavist Magazine Jan 2016 50min Permalink
Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?
Simon Parkin The Guardian Sep 2015 25min Permalink
He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.
Ronen Bergman The Atavist Magazine Apr 2015 1h10min Permalink
“You Palestinians can never see the fucking big picture.”
Ben Birnbaum, Amir Tibon New Republic Jul 2014 40min Permalink
The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet May 2014 30min Permalink
Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.
Max Chafkin Fast Company Apr 2014 35min Permalink
The case against Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel.
Seymour Hersh New Yorker Jan 1999 25min Permalink
An Israeli journalist’s six years of conversation with Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday.
Ari Shavit New Yorker Jan 2006 35min Permalink
On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.
Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2013 40min Permalink
How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Jul 2013 45min Permalink
How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.
Jason Koutsoukis The Sydney Morning Herald Mar 2013 15min Permalink
In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.
Amos Barshad Grantland Mar 2013 30min Permalink
On the Israeli national baseball team.
Charles Bethea Details Mar 2013 Permalink
The rise of Israel’s far right.
David Remnick New Yorker Jan 2013 35min Permalink
An investigation into the death of a Canadian soldier in Lebanon.
Life and death in an underground economy.
James Verini National Geographic Nov 2012 20min Permalink