Culture

What a ‘kippah walk’ in Berlin won’t tell you about anti-Semitism

A Chabad rabbi's stroll through a Muslim neighborhood is fraught, but is it meaningful?

Israel’s surprising World Baseball Classic run ends with loss to Japan

Israel, the lowest-ranked team to qualify for the showcase tournament, opened with four straight wins before dropping its last two games.

What’s So Funny About the Holocaust? This New Film Asks

The notion that, for millennia, Jews have used humor to cope with persecution and struggle isn’t new—but the idea that certain topics may be off-limits to that humor is. So the question is: Is it okay to make jokes about the Holocaust? And why do we feel the need to, anyway? Filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein’s new documentary, The […]