The story of Kibbutz Alumim.

Plus, the success of the moshav.

Haim Hazaz’s “The Sermon.”

Rabbi A.Y. Kook and the difference between a philosopher and a religious personality.

The late humorist contemplates the absurdity of Israel’s being an ordinary place.

WeWork’s familiar tale of hubris and avarice.

Malka Haas’s free-range kids.

Discover by a Muslim and a Christian.

The ideals are gone, but kindergartens are full.

The more complicated Israel becomes, the less it is understood by American Jews.

Making socialism work—to a degree.

A history of the future that wasn’t.

Two flowers and an oleander.

Suicide bombings and peace talks, socialism and its decline, pogroms and the Holocaust.