Jo-Ann Mort
National News
- G.A.’s Savior Is the Russian Oligarch ‘Who Got Away’
- Yuri Foreman: Future Rabbi, Present World Champion
- Visa Issues Lead to a Shortage of Religious Staffers
Community News
- Hasidic Village’s Neighbors Have Slaughterhouse Blues
- Former Agriprocessors CEO Rubashkin Sent to Prison
- Sy Syms, Retail Magnate and Y.U. Benefactor, Dies at 83
International News
- Funding for Overseas Jews In Disarray as Agencies Duel
- Perfect Storm: Wide Gaps, Weak Leaders, Elusive Peace
- The Life, Death and Judaica of a Russian Oligarch
Israel News
- Ethiopian Jews Celebrate a Festival, Gain Israeli Attention for Their Traditions
- Were Israelis Banned From Komen’s Egyptian Cancer Meeting?
- Amid Growing Crisis, U.S. Asks Israel for Action To Boost Abbas
Arts & Culture
- Darwin and Gods — for Kids
- Pannonica
- Magen Tzedek: Model of the Jewish Future or Show Without an Audience?
- Mahmoud Darwish: If He Were Another
- Internet: The Hatred Super-Highway
- How, Why, Who Hates Us
Fast Forward
- Building Identity Through Art
- An Honest Marriage of Vermont and Judaism
- Where ‘Love’ First Appears
- Dirty Sayings Never Get Old
- Two-Way Giving
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
The Shmooze
- A New Yad for the Bar-Mitzvah Set
- Vienna Event Misplaces the ‘Hatikvah’
- Costco Gets Into the Torah Business
- Sir Ian Knows What It’s Like
- Prestigious Award for Israeli Choreographer
- MacFarlane’s Not-So-Funny Jew Joke
Forward Forum
- An American Yom Tov
- Trying Terrorists
- The Wages of Liberal Guilt
- A Time for Counting
- Freezing Progess, Not Settlements
- Missing the Abu Mazen Opportunity
Editorial
Mahmoud Darwish: If He Were Another
By Jo-Ann Mort
Bringing Our Labor Legacy to Life
By Jo-Ann Mort
Balkan Beauty
By Jo-Ann Mort
In her new novel, “People of the Book,” Geraldine Brooks compresses six centuries of history and transforms them into a fast-moving mystery novel. Brooks’s engaging, intensely researched historic tale is based on the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, a book that originated in pre-Inquisition Spain and lives today under lock and key in Sarajevo, Bosnia.Read More
‘Friends,’ Tel Aviv-style
By Jo-Ann Mort
The quickest way to summarize Eytan Fox’s new film, “The Bubble,” is to describe it as an Israeli version of “Friends.” But unlike the characters in the American television show, these 20-somethings collide with reality in a dramatic fashion. Also, it’s not exactly a comedy.Read More
Preaching Peace and Love, Armed With Just a Guitar
By Jo-Ann Mort
‘I’m here as a soldier of love,” reggae star Ziggy Marley proclaimed last Thursday, as he performed at Ra’anna’s municipal park in a suburban-style city in the center of the country, far from the katushyas that are hitting in Israel’s north and from the Qassam rockets falling in the south. It was the same message he had given at a pre-concert press conference: “I have no fear. I believe in what I do, good vibes, love, release of tension, negative energy… love is my religion.”Read More
- Top Barghouti Ally Holds Court In City Abuzz With Diplomacy
- In Israel’s Largest Muslim City, Strife Stirs Complex Emotions
- From His West Bank Oasis, Palestinian Adviser Talks Peace
- A Lebanese Writer’s Palestinian Story
- Waves of Emptiness Mark History in German Capital
- Idealistic Newcomers Reshape Desert Town
- A Holocaust Memoir, Minus the Holocaust
- A Call to Liberals To Take Back the Light
- An Israeli Designer Embroiders Fashion and Politics
- Children of Foreign Workers Stuck Living in Legal Limbo
- Weaving the Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy Into its Rightful Place
- Labor Boss Finds Himself Kingmaker of the Israeli Left
- What is the Jewish State to the Children of Israel?
- In New CD, Israel’s Musical Soul Peers at Those Living in Shadows
- A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue Seeks Europe’s True Heart
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