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No Nate Silver Here

In contrast to their U.S. counterparts, Israel's pollsters use small samples, refuse to reveal the precise questions they ask—and have been wrong about every election so far.Harold Bloom’s Divine Obsession

Literary critic Harold Bloom dismisses halakhic Judaism as a "fossil."  But, 20 years after his work The Book of J, the Bible continues to obsess him.Beyond the Tanya

The Tanya, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, remains the foundational text of Chabad Hasidism.  But it was Shneur Zalman's oral teachings that built a movement.Washington Post Says “Settlements” Rhetoric Overheated

Almost all of Israel's recent post-Oslo settlement construction is located in areas that a two-state solution would cede to Israel. The real roadblock to peace is Abbas.Righteous Among the Nations

Yad Vashem's recognition of Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, who recruited rescuers and sheltered Jews in the cardinal’s palace, shows the complexity of the wartime role of the Catholic Church.I Led Three Lives

Former neo-Nazi and PLO collaborator Willi Voss was prosecuted for his role in the Munich massacre. He went on to become a valuable CIA informant in Lebanon.The Secret Jews of Terceira

"In all my travels, I had never seen anything like this.  I had beheld hidden arks and sequestered shelves that held objects of worship, but an entire synagogue?"From Cyrus to Ahmedinijad

Liberated by Cyrus, protected by the Sassanids, and even favored for a time by the Mongols, Jews had a relatively good time in Persia—until Shia Islam became dominant.Broadway and the Jews

As they say in Spamalot, "You won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews."  A new documentary film emphatically agrees.Wingate of Zion

Israel remembers Orde Wingate for turning Jews in Mandate Palestine into a fighting force—as T. E. Lawrence had done for the Arabs.  But Wingate's legacy stretches further still.