Author Interviews

Black and white image of a group of smiling children beneath a small tent in a desert setting
Israeli Arts and Culture

Here's What It Was Like to Grow Up on a Kibbutz

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

What was it like to grow up in a communal children’s house on an Israeli kibbutz? Rachel Biale was born in 1952 and raised on Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, overlooking the Jordan River. She is the author of the new memoir Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood.

Activists holding a large sign that reads REFUGEES WELCOME
Tikkun Olam

We Have a Moral Duty to Welcome the Stranger

Aron Hirt-Manheimer
We sat down with Rabbi Bycel to learn more about his humanitarian activism and the making of his book, which Madeleine Albright has rightly hailed as “timely, important, and deeply moving.”
Arbeit Macht Frei sign at the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp
Holocaust

Why Did Roosevelt Abandon Europe's Jews?

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Learn what author and historian Dr. Rafael Medoff thinks about FDR’s failure to rescue Jews from World War II Europe.