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You may wonder why a man just shy of his 88th birthday would get up at five in the morning to fly to Omaha to give a speech. Frankly, since accepting…

Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust, and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his…

Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his…

Taming the GodsBy Ian Buruma | Princeton University Press | 132 pages | $19.95In France, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote almost 200 years ago, reformers…

Though an Interior Ministry spokesperson later called it a “misunderstanding,” the blocking of Noam Chomsky’s entrance to the West Bank by an Israeli…

To paraphrase Sir Thomas Morley, “Now is the month of Maying when the Festival is aplaying! Fa la la la la!” It’s the Israel Festival, of course,…

Hardly a week goes by here without the claim, usually by groups on the Left, that people are being silenced and censored by McCarthyism. In an…

WHOOPS! WE goofed by being a week ahead of ourselves. Apologies to those readers who braved the heat last Shabbat to walk to the Great Synagogue for…

J. Ezra Merkin, the hedge fund manager who invested billions of dollars of his clients' money with Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, has agreed to…

EVEN THOUGH Michelle Obama did not change her schedule in order to get together with Sarah Netanyahu this week, the US first lady did actually meet…

On a weeknight at the New Yorker Festival a fashionable young crowd has gathered to think about monsters. Or, rather, to watch Martin Amis, aging…

Back in 1930, in the darkest depths of the Great Depression, oil magnate and philanthropist Edward Harkness donated the then-staggering sum of…

Ehud O. was lying in bed after a rather depressing night, unsettled at the prospect of what the morning's papers might be saying about him, when…

Philip Roth may have become famous in America for the exuberant carnality of Portnoy's Complaint, but he still remembers when the attitude toward sex…

In the world of Jewish studies, Prof. Jacob Neusner needs no introduction. The 75-year-old scholar of Talmud and rabbinic literature has written,…

The Jewish Enemy: The Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the HolocaustBy Jeffrey HerfBelknap Press390 pages; $18.95A Gift of Life: The…

Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and IslamBy Bruce ChiltonDoubleday272 pages; $24.95Out of the religious resources of…

The Sorrows of an AmericanBy Siri HustvedtHenry Holt320 pages; $25The voice coming out of the speakers starts in a low whisper, like the first sound…

British Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks is the premier public intellectual of Judaism in the English-speaking world and has no obvious counterpart in…

Being an advocate for Israel on any American university campus poses a myriad of challenges. As student leaders, we perform a daily balancing act: On…