Berlin schools grant humanists their own holiday

In 1974, Susan Sontag's film Promised Lands , shot in 1973 in Israel during the weeks following the Yom Kippur War, and which might be called an encounter with Israel at war, was panned in the New York Times by a reviewer who objected to Sontag's ...

A new play recently opened in Tel Aviv about a Yom Kippur general shows that nothing has really changed: We are still permitted to do anything, in the army and in civilian life, then and now. Gorodish again? That war again? How much more can we ...

Is history repeating itself? After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Palestine Liberation Organization adopted its "phased plan." As the years went by, Israel's establishment was viewed through Palestinian eyes as a fraud, a forgery, an act of ...

ARCHIVES: Background: PM Sharon's powerful argument that Yom Kippur War result of ignoring Egyptian violation of cease-fire Speaking today at the main memorial service for those who died in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ...

Audio: Yigal Carmon - Yom Kippur Warning - Interview on Reshet Bet Israel Radio 23.2.2015 on Iran's deployment on Israel's borders and within Israel's security envelope to destroy the Jewish State http://youtu.be/1Qlz2cbk1XI For report:

On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Who shall live and who shall die, who shall perish by fire and who by water, who by Roman soldier and who by cancer… Created by Ruth Cohen Golmant, the author's longtime friend, ...

WHILE most Jews were sitting in shul on Yom Kippur this year, 27-year-old Gideon Bensen was performing on one of the world's most sought-after stages in Texas. His band, The Preatures, had scored a spot at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Andrew Phillips reflects on what Chanukah means to him… When I was 10, I certainly didn't fast on Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashanah and Pesach were a blur of family, synagogue and long dinners. But Chanukah meant one thing and that was gifts.

Arye David of Gedera, Israel, is trying to find the Israeli soldiers he helped save during a tank ambush in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Courtesy of Arye David) The Seeking Kin column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. ...