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The Shalit Test

Once Fatah and Hamas finalize their planned unity government, they will no longer be able to disclaim responsibility for the Israeli soldier kidnapped five years ago; how will Israel, and how will the West, respond?Laughing in the Darkness

A film about Sholem Aleichem, the rebellious genius who plumbed the depth of a Jewish world in crisis, and captured it with brilliant humor, will open in New York in July. (With trailer; video)Digging the First Shuls

Excavations in Israel over the past decades suggest that the synagogue may be a considerably older institution than once thought.Religious Macho

A rabbi and mystic wants his followers to visit Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, where a student was shot to death by Palestinian police, precisely because it is dangerous.I Believe in Israel

The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan decries the "anti-Israel conspiracy" and pays tribute to the soldiers of the IDF, "who sacrifice so much for the defense of Israel and for our Western democratic values." (Transcript)Where Have all the Boomers Gone?

Among members of American ethnic and religious groups, Jews tend to be older; fixated on the young, foundations and communal organizations ignore the fifty-and-up cohort at their peril.Lenin’s Jewish Roots

For the first time, Russian museum-goers can view documents confirming longstanding rumors about the Soviet dictator's family background.The Obama Doctrine and Israel

Why Israel cannot accede to a complete military withdrawal to the pre-June 1967 lines: the reason has little to do with the Palestinians. (PDF)The Contradictions of anti-Semitism

Are Jews a success story, or a plague? Victims, or victimizers? Devils, or God's chosen people? Thoughts on an "oversaturated" and shape-shifting stereotype.Arab Apartheid

The true nakba of the 1948 Arab refugees is not their dispossession, a common fate in the 20th century, but the crushing abuse they have suffered at the hands of the Arab states to which they fled.