Billy Two Hats, starring Gregory Peck.

A new podcast series on a seminal figure.

The nuclear physicist’s belated bar mitzvah.

Avi Shlaim, crank.

A long-awaited kaddish.

And the struggle to teach the Israel-Palestinian conflict at an Ivy League university.

Remembering a scholar, diplomat, and public intellectual.

A photo essay.

“Shock, bewilderment, a slight nausea, a sudden urge to fight back the tears that welled in my eyes.”

Rescuer, convert, rebbetzin, spy.

Kiryat Shmona, 1974.

A secret ammunition factory.

“Not by meek flattery, but by making ‘the free world’ stare right into its own hypocrisy.”

How Lucette Ferraille became Rebbetzin Ruth Blau.