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Herman Wouk Remembers

At ninety-four, the best-selling author has published a compact philosophical autobiography that, among other things, attempts to reconcile religion and science.Let the Palestinians Declare Statehood

With no prospect of an agreement in sight, the unilateral formation of a state would help to normalize the dispute.From the Four Winds

Through the eyes of two different immigrant families in 1950s Israel, the novelist Haim Sabato has written a profoundly moving meditation on Judaism and Jewish history.God’s Country

Living in the land of Israel, in the judgment of the great medieval commentator Nahmanides, is "equal in importance to all the commandments." An essay from 1968.The U.S.-Israel Quarrel

A six-part exchange on what Americans and Israelis are trying to say to each other.Unwelcome Mat

How the ultra-Orthodox gained a stranglehold on standards of conversion to Judaism, and how it can and should be undone.Turkey Takes Sides

By re-defining Israel as an enemy, the Turkish prime minister has set back the cause of peace and stability.Lebanon’s Fate

A new book offers a dispassionate but intimate account of the human condition under severe sectarian stress—and a modest vision of a way forward.Baseball, Football, and Abraham Joshua Heschel

An inquiry, against the background of the Sabbath, into George Carlin's comic routine on the divide between the two great American games.Mourning Lech Kaczynski

Poland's Jewish remnant responded to his outspoken sympathy not only with Israel but with them and their history—and to his brand of Polish pride.