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Bordering on Collapse

As a result of the Syrian civil war, Middle East borders that have lasted since the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 are on the verge of erasure—and the vultures are already circling.Are the Settlements Illegal?

The Geneva Convention provides no clear determination as to who has rights of sovereignty over the West Bank.Matchmaker, Matchmaker

A new artificial-intelligence system, capable of 4.5 trillion calculations per second, is reconstructing 100,000 fragments from the Cairo Genizah. No Compromise

Accepting contemporary biblical scholarship amounts to "rejecting the attitude toward the Torah held by every Jew until Spinoza and every traditional Jew since."The Two Sauls

Like his biblical namesake, Saul Bellow became a monster in his dotage, according to his son's memoir.  But in his writing, at least, Old Saul remained generous.How Rational Is Iran?

Saddam Hussein torched Kuwait's oil fields.  Bashar al-Assad has killed 70,000 of his own people.  Why assume that Iran's autocracy will act rationally?Fear in France

Anti-Semitic attacks in France are becoming deadlier and more frequent, but the French public remains indifferent.Waiting for Abbas

"I completely gave up on having an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley. . . . I proposed a compromise on sovereignty over the Temple Mount." (Interview by Avi Issacharoff)Kafka on Trial

Two new books show how, and how not, to approach the work of Franz Kafka, now that there is little original left to say.Lending Limits

By allowing loans to be reformulated as business deals, the Talmud circumvents the Torah’s prohibition on usury.  But there are limits to when this legal device should be used.