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Grandes Dames

Right about the Nazis at a time when most others were wrong, the tragedy of Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson was to outlive their time.A Strategic Asset

Israeli contributions to U.S. national interests, underappreciated by many, include enhanced counter-terrorism, intelligence, and technology useful in urban warfare. (Read full PDF report here.)  Hebrew Underground

After half a century of a USSR policy to condemn Hebrew as a "reactionary tool," the language emerged in the 1970's as the lifeblood of the "Refusenik" movement.The Softer Side of a Revolutionary

"Red Rosa" Luxemburg made her name with blistering articles in the Party press. Yet her letters from prison are, in fact, so resolutely cheerful and gentle that they can become cloying.Strike?

Here's what it would take for Israel to incapacitate Iran's nuclear capability.The Ger Mandolin Orchestra

The red brick walls of a Polish synagogue are reverberating anew with the music of a Jewish band that played there in the 1930's. (Watch video here.)  Recanting Cant

The infamous author of the Goldstone Report now shames those, especially in South Africa, who conflate the situation in Israel and the West Bank with the old apartheid system. We are the 50%

While hopes for democracy in Arab states have never been so great, the future of the region's women is precarious. But the United States can be of significant help.After Weegee

Although her name comes up only late in the book, Susan Sontag is the grand antagonist of a series of essays on contemporary Jewish American photographers.What’s in a (Jewish) Name?

Hunting for baby names, one Talmud scholar riffles through a lexicon of Jewish names in antiquity.