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Cauliflower with a kick

Spiced up this simple vegetable for a flavour-filled side dish

Olives: the bitter truth

How good your olives taste depends on how well you treat them.

Oferet Yetzukah

The term oferet yetzukah means a solid mould of lead and conjures up images of families playing dreidl, with Chanucah candles shining on the window sill.

Shemot

“They replied, ‘An Egyptian man saved us from the shepherds’” Exodus 2:19

Still fighting the battle over Israeli conversions

The head of Israel’s conversion programme tells us why he is defying its hardline opponents.

Why I did not 'rally for Israel'

Operation Cast Lead is not merely misguided militarily; it is misguided morally

How Gaza reveals home truths

The bloody conflict has revealed certain hard realities in a clear, cold, positive light

Interview: Mandy Patinkin

He sings, he acts, he has a Gaza peace plan

Bashir waltzes off with a Globe

A nation in one family

Photographer Vardi Kahana set out to document Israeli society by focusing on her relatives.

Yizhar: a pioneering chronicler of Israel

Family life

Sufferin’ Safran

Review: Human Expressionism: the Human Figure and the Jewish experience

Why our art kept the face

Obituary: Emanuel Rackman

Born Albany, New York, June 24, 1910. Died New York, December 1, 2008, aged 98.

Obituary: Conor Cruise O’Brien

Born Dublin, November 3, 1917. Died Howth, County Dublin, December 18, 2008, aged 91.