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A Many-Surrendered Thing

By one count, Jerusalem has been conquered 61 times. Why is only the most recent conquest problematic?The Forgotten Woman Cantor

For nine years (1884–1893), Julie Eichberg Rosewald led services at San Francisco's Temple Emanu-El.Begin’s Prisoner’s Dilemma

In a Soviet prison, the young Menachem Begin fought to remove the word "guilty" from a forced confession of his Zionist activitiesDominoes

While the monarchies of the Middle East have a fighting chance to reform and survive, the region's dictatorial "republics" have been toppling down. Syria is next.Chai Society

Traditionally excluded from Yale's secret societies, Jewish students founded Eliezer, a club and salon that has blossomed into an organization of global repute.Standing Up to the UN

As the American ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission in the mid-1990s, Geraldine Ferraro took a poised and principled stance against its demonization of Israel.Lord Byron’s Hebrew Melodies

How many Jews have read the Romantic poet's "She walks in beauty" without a clue that it was written to be sung to a Sephardi liturgical tune?A Real Palestinian Uprising?

On the possibility that protests like those rocking the greater Arab world will break out in the West Bank, Gaza, or both.Lost in Transit

The debut novel of David Bezmozgis, once hailed as a successor to Roth and Malamud, represents a dispiriting turn for the genre of immigrant fiction.Her Jewish Problem

The gender theorist Judith Butler turns an essay ostensibly about the legal dispute over Kafka's unpublished papers into a libel of the Jewish state.