Mark Twain

Will our quarrelling leaders ever learn to unify and cooperate? - opinion

Either we find a way to impose on quarrelling leaders our demand for cooperation or we sit back like the sages at the banquet and contribute through indifference to the demise of our great countries.

 Demonstrators at a pro-Israel rally hold flags in front of a protest encampment in support of Palestinians in Gaza at  the University of Washington in Seattle on May 12.
 Adam Sandler gives an acceptance speech at the 2022 Gotham Awards.

Adam Sandler to receive Mark Twain Prize for American humor

 THE DRISCO HOTEL – attention to detail

Old-fashioned luxury at Tel Aviv’s Drisco

 THE LAND itself refused to embrace strangers.

Parashat Bechukotai: Mark Twain and the divine curse of Palestine


Was Mark Twain's depiction of Israel in the 1800s accurate?

Was Mark Twain’s depiction of a desolate empty land inaccurate, an aberration? What did other travelers during this period write about their visits to the Holy Land?

 A portrait of Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907.

December 9, 2019: 20th century creation

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Mark Twain in the Holy Land

A new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society brings the famous writer’s journey back to life.

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Center Field: Mark Twain’s ‘Innocents Abroad’ explains our Israel obsession

Clearly, we have some Mark Twain-like “unlearning” to do, especially about Israel.

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Mark Twain’s unwittingly prophetic vision for the State of Israel

A natural skeptic, Twain was not taken by the splendor of the Holy Land. He wrote irreverently about the country’s legendary sites.

The sea of of Galilee is forecast to hit its lowest level ever