Was She a Saint? It may be a long time before the Christian world knows what to make of the Frenchwoman named Simone Weil. She was born (in 1909) into an agnostic Jewish family, and died (in 1943 ...

Henry’s father, Hugo, worked in a leather goods store owned by his uncle Philipp Weil. His mother, Maria “Marishka” née Springer, cared for Henry and their home. The Weils were an observant Jewish ...

Israeli group Bat Kol to launch English website as ‘life-net’ for those struggling with acceptance. Like so many newly religious American immigrants to Israel, 20-year-old Sarah Weil immersed ...

But there have been a few exceptions. Pickette loves Eli Wallach’s character, Rabbi Aaron Gold in Claudia Weil’s 1978 film Girlfriends. Wallach, while an older man, doesn’t have a beard or ...

To share personal stories of the Israel-Hamas war, the struggles of Israel Defense Forces battalions and the impact of the ...

Readers respond to Judith Thurman’s essay about Simone Weil and Maggie Doherty’s review of a volume of Seamus Heaney’s letters.

False claims about eating pets led to threats against Haitian migrants, while accusers failed to look inward at their own ...

Haim Yosef (Ophir Weil,) a wealthy man, celebrates his son Menashe Mendel (Yaniv Shavit) marrying Rachel (Daniel Gal.) Loyal to the Jewish value of sponsoring those who are brilliant Torah ...

Some of the key ways to observe Rosh Hashanah include attending synagogue services to hear the blowing of the shofar, a ...

Sara Grossman-Weil and her husband Menek ... [above and below spelled Mirka] and were formed into a column of five. A Jewish slave laborer working on the ramp slipped up to them and whispered ...

Through his studies, he was introduced to the writings of Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Martin Buber, Simone Weil and Emmanuel Levinas. He also read Torah with traditional commentary and ...

these documents speak to two critical axes—the first between Jewish universalism and particularism, and the second between the identification and disidentification of French Jews with France as a ...