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Double Standards

Does the incompetence of Human Rights Watch in handling the repression and violence of the Syrian regime prove the organization's irrelevance once and for all?  Monsters into Songbirds

Israeli author Etgar Keret's cryptic popular fantasies can be read as coping strategies for a morally ambiguous world.Panzers for the Kingdom

Why has the prospective sale to Saudi Arabia of 200 of Germany's most advanced main battle tanks raised nary a peep from Israel? For good reason, as it happens.Why Jews Succeed

Social scientists tend neither to understand nor to appreciate how modern capitalism has been shaped by earlier cultural predispositions; they would do well to study the case of the Jews.The Cottage-Cheese Rebellion

An Israeli protest movement over the cost of food is spreading to other goods and services; whether it will help bring truly competitive markets and a more accountable political class remains to be seen.Lucky Little Shul

A synagogue built in 1913, tucked into a narrow lot on New York's Lower East Side, still stands and is still in use—protected, perhaps, by the constellation of zodiac signs on its walls?Rothschild Boulevard is Not Tahrir Square

Israel's middle-class protest movement may have been inspired by the "Arab Spring," but the two have nothing in common-and besides, Israelis can always change their government.The Scandal of Particularity

Despite what some modern Jews think, particularism is not the enemy of universalism; quite the contrary.Pooling Genes

A new scientific paper uses DNA to assert a genetic link between Jews and Africans—a link also attested by ancient Jewish tales of trade and other exchanges with sub-Saharan Africa.Saving Monticello

Without the care and stewardship of the Levy family in the 19th century, one of America's most famous presidential homes might not exist today.