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Likud’s Wait List

As Likud members vote for their party’s candidate list in the coming election, the party is expected to move to the right.  But Netanyahu has ways of ensuring it does not move too far. From Jews to Catholics—and Back

Dozens of evangelical Catholic families in northern Colombia have discovered their Jewish ancestry—and converted to Judaism.  Their former minister says, “It was like our souls had memory.” Bankrupting Terrorism

Hamas’s Iran-supplied rockets spread terror, but Israel’s Iron Dome defense imposed a cost: Hamas’s strategy may bankrupt Iran, just as Reagan’s “Star Wars” strategy bankrupted the Soviet Union.Judaism’s Golden Plate

For a committed Jew to hold this item in his hands concretizes millennia of Jewish faith.  But it also raises questions about the history of monotheism and the permeability of culture. Hamas’s Miscalculation

Seeking to defuse internal pressure from Salafist groups, and emboldened by closer ties with Egypt, Hamas thought that it could attack Israel with impunity. But that was a grave miscalculation. The Name of the Rambam

On one acrostic in one piyut, and its implications for our understanding of the man we know—perhaps mistakenly—as Maimonides. Exit Left

Despite the conflict in Gaza, the West Bank has remained quiet—in part thanks to the PA. Does this mean that once the dust settles, Netanyahu will be expected to make concessions to Abbas? Questions for the Critics

“Would you be satisfied, then . . .” (A poem)How Democratic was the Jewish Demos?

Is the Hebrew Bible an attempt on the part of humans to govern themselves?  Or is it the story of a people who saw themselves under the sovereignty of God?  Bipolar Poland

Historians of World War II have viewed Poland either as a nation of heroes or as a nation of collaborators.  How can these two narratives be reconciled?