1 Week to Passover (or How 2 Million Arabs Nearly Pushed Me to the Sea)

By Koby Shamsian, April 12, 2012

March 30, 2012 06:00 I wake up, open my eyes, its one week to Passover, so many things to do, so little time to do them. Passover is the busiest time of the year in Israel. People go crazy with preparations for this holiday: Cleaning houses; dusting; vacuuming; painting the walls with fresh paint; changing [...]

Blood Libel Oozes from Grass

By Jennifer Hanin, April 5, 2012

When you’re a German Nobel Laureate, a member of the Waffen SS, and the worst thing you can say about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is he has a “big mouth,” you might just be an antisemite. Jeff Foxworthy analogy aside, a poem by noted 85-year-old German writer and poet Guenter Grass, published Wednesday in several [...]