Sunday Features

A protest led by Within Our Lifetime in Manhattan, September 17, 2021. (Luke Tress)

What is Within Our Lifetime, the anti-Israel activist group behind the protests at the Nova exhibit and Brooklyn Museum?

The hardline pro-Palestinian group has spent years building up its following with street rallies in New York, and sparking controversies along the way.

This Pride, queer Jews are feeling the strain — and sometimes unsafe — over Israel

Critics are seeing an atmosphere of antisemitism and Israel-related “litmus tests” for Jews in queer spaces.

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’

“We feel it’s the very moment for this film,” said director Julia Von Heinz.

A citizenship class for Jewish immigrants at Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS), Lower East Side, New York City, February 16, 1920. (Courtesy/YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)

Jewish immigrant men abandoned their wives in droves a century ago. Their stories are getting a new look

As Israeli tourism to Georgia has boomed, these Israelis have put down roots in Tbilisi

A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history

Why Israel was the first country to get its own version of ‘Who is Taylor Swift?’ bestselling kids book

As MLB veteran Kevin Pillar enjoys a late-career resurgence in LA, he’s come to appreciate his place as a Jewish baseball star

LA Jewish day school censors two student newspaper articles on Israel-Hamas war

Netflix’s ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ aims to make the Holocaust hit home for a younger generation

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