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• UN envoy Samantha Power poses tough questions for Israelis and Palestinians

  December 13, 2015 11:40pm

  The first-of-its-kind HaaretzQ brought out hundreds, mainly those aligned with the political left.

• Obama calls on Israelis and Palestinians to ‘exercise restraint’

  December 13, 2015 12:31pm

  “Inexcusable violence has taken too many lives — Israelis, Palestinians, Americans and others,” the president said in a televised message to a Haaretz-sponsored forum in New York.

• How music and meditation jazzed up Jewish life on N.Y.’s Fire Island

  August 3, 2015 10:48am

  Sixty miles and a world away from Manhattan, Shabbat worshipers are now picking up percussion instruments along with their prayer books.

• Artists’ shrapnel playground excluded from museum’s Tisha b’Av event

  July 24, 2015 12:20pm

  A museum evening about “the power of memory in the healing of trauma” will no longer include the work of a visual artist who survived a 2000 suicide bombing.

• Highlighting privilege, Jewish comedian tries (and fails) to get arrested

  June 18, 2015 3:29pm

  The indefatigable web comic Jessie Kahnweiler, of “Meet My Rapist” fame, is back with a new video in which she manhandles some of L.A.’s biggest power brokers, trespasses and tries to sell drugs to uniformed officers.

• Jessie Kahnweiler, ‘Meet My Rapist’ star, returns with ‘bulimia dark comedy’

  April 13, 2015 12:57pm

  With her clueless Jewish girl shtick, comedian Jessie Kahnweiler’ calls attention to privilege and injustice. The results are as radical as they are hilarious.

• Doing downward dog in Ramallah

  February 24, 2015 2:58pm

  In the West Bank, yoga studios cater to Palestinians seeking inner peace in a land marred by war.

• Hanukkah gifts for bookworms

  December 10, 2014 4:01pm

  Martin Amis’ “Holocaust satire,” Assaf Gavron’s family drama on a West Bank hilltop and Adam Kirsch’s new essay collection should be on your holiday gift list, writes Batya Ungar-Sargon.

• ‘Paper Love’: Paving the way for post-survivor storytelling

  November 4, 2014 6:03pm

  In her new book, Sarah Wildman searches for the mysterious woman her grandfather left behind in Hitler’s Europe.

• After rejecting BDS ban, Open Hillel holds first conference

  October 14, 2014 7:26pm

  The 2-year-old student group fighting Hillel’s guidelines on groups and speakers deemed hostile to Israel brings hundreds to Harvard for its inaugural confab.