Robert Israel

Jewish synagogues adopt new security strategies as antisemitic threats increase. By Robert Israel

"Samuel Beckett's work speaks to me because he's a very visceral writer. And, because I have training as a cl…

The U.S. and the Holocaust leaves a vital question unanswered: Is this the kind of nation we want to live and…

Alan Lightman, Professor in the Practice of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is…

Increasing anti-Semitic attacks against synagogues and Jewish centers have led some rabbis to advocate for st…

In Graciela Iturbide's photographs, the living and the dying are often joined at the (exposed) skeletal hip. …

There are 170 recipes in King Solomon's Table. Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the …

Why has Bernard Weinraub chosen this secretive chapter of Miller’s life as fodder for his play?

E. J. Dionne, Jr., is the William Bloomberg Visiting Professor for 2017-18, a joint appointment between Harva…

Robert Israel Illustration by Andrew Zbihlyj My mother, her two sisters, and my grandmother shared shopping t…

Yes, Ripcord is candied, but there's just enough astringency blended in to make the sugar sufficiently tangy.…

December, 2016 By Robert Israel Vital Signs Editor The MMS held two fall forums that identified health challe…

The Last Shift, poems by Philip Levine. Knopf, 96 pages, $26.95 My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry by Philip Lev…

No other state celebrates the US defeat of Japan this way. Maybe it's time for a new approach.