Tal Kra-Oz

A majority of young Israelis are granted service exemptions for ethnic or religious reasons, and mental health exemptions are notoriously easy to obtain. Being a conscientious objector is a far more difficult and demanding path.

The late playwright is embraced by the mainstream audiences he spent his life rebelling against.

A conversation with the former prime minister.

Two literary scholars dig into Israel's tangled military-literary complex.

An exclusive interview with Jerusalem's mayor on the challenges of keeping the peace and keeping trash off the streets in the world's holiest city.

A secular Tel Avivian moves to the West Bank and provides a curious, humane lens on life in a settlement.

Gesher theater company gives the classic tale of religious spirits a modern psychological turn.

Alan Jay Lerner of Lerner and Loewe wrote classic American musicals like 'My Fair Lady,' whose Jewish themes are not always obvious.

'Absent' is a deeply personal and moving work.

A new production of the classic play feels painfully contemporary.

Rod Serling's outsider worldview continues to guide and inspire, across decades and media.

Playwright J.T. Rogers talks about the deputies' deputies who allow him to tell a complicated diplomatic story, why their story resonates, and why the 1990s seems so very long ago now.

The Israeli singer, with his Middle East Groove All Stars, prepares for his New York debut.

Jesse Eisenberg talks about Woody Allen, Obama's tailor, Jewish humor, and his new collection of funny short stories.

Anna Ziegler's play features Nicole Kidman as Franklin, whose research was instrumental in the discovery of DNA's double helix structure.

Israeli mentalist Uri Geller's mind-over-matter philosophy of life.

Israel's former president rules Westeros.

Michael Twitty's complex identity comes through in his cooking.

'This Is Our Youth,' with Tavi Gevinson and Michael Cera, portrays the 'pathetic remnants of Upper West Side Jewish liberalism.'

A new staging of Amos Kenan's 'Salt of the Earth' hints at a resurgence of the Canaanite movement's anti-dystopian, anti-Zionist liberal vision.

In 2011, Tel Aviv's Daphni Leef helped ignite mass protests for social change. She looks back at what went wrong.

For residents of the town Sderot, running to bomb shelters is nothing new.

The chefs who made Machneyuda into Jerusalem's hottest ticket team up with British nightclub owners to open The Palomar.

A production showcases Erich Kästner's work, which was banned by the Nazis.

Zvi Zamir and Eli Zeira reckon with history in Tel Aviv after four decades of feuding over the surprise attack.

Rome and Jerusalem's long, bloody entanglement, refracted through a blockbuster museum exhibition.

Revisiting Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

Israel's foremost graphic novelist traces a family's hidden history through Warsaw and Tel Aviv.

Can the mayor continue his drive to pull the ancient city into the 21st century?

Fifty years on: the story of one of Israel's best-loved rock bands.

I don't need Israeli Memorial Day to remember Alex Assaf.

Powerful Likud politicians push for annexation of the West Bank.

Not far from her village near Lebanon, the Israeli novelist talks war and books.