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A Jerusalem Childhood

The longtime literary editor of the (London) Sunday Telegraph recalls her years as the child of German Jewish refugees in 1940's Jerusalem.Is Diss a System?

A new book explicates the work of the American cartoonist and storyteller Milt Gross (Nize Baby, Dunt Ask!, etc.), who flourished in the 1920s and 30s—and whom it would be a colossal error to judge from a 21st-century perspective.Aligned with Liberty

Norman Podhoretz's break with the Left led to one of the most dramatic moments in American and American Jewish history of the last half-century; a new biography tells the whole story.Mutual Enemies, Mutual Interests

Kurds want Israelis to know they have friends in the Middle East—perhaps their only ones.Ancient Plastic?

Thousands of recycled flint shards have been found in a fire pit near Tel Aviv: the world's oldest known disposable knives?Unleavened Politics

In a declassified 1976 document, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the president of the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel discuss the shipment of matzah into the Soviet Union.What is Moderate Islam?

The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about Islam; six leading thinkers weigh in. A symposium.Sephardi Siren

Yasmin Levy, whose music is like a "deep pool of exquisite yearning and heartbreak," is the international voice—and face—of Ladino song.Crackdown in France

President Nicolas Sarkozy's tough new security-related initiatives have earned widespread denunciation—but not from French Jews.Alphabet Coup

Who invented the alphabet: sophisticated West Semitic scribes, or illiterate turquoise miners? A debate.