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A Jewish Disneyland?

With Moscow's new Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Vladimir Putin is appealing to Jews who fled the country to return—while Shimon Peres thanks Russia for "a thousand years of hospitality."skyTran!

While Jerusalem has taken a decade to build a tramline, Tel Aviv is set to be the first city in the world to pilot NASA's space-age rapid transport system.  The Great War’s Jewish Soldiers

Military service in the First World War marked the entry of many Jewish immigrants into wider society; but for those in the Jewish Legion, it also represented Zionism's first military victory.The Last Refuge of Scoundrels

As his regime nears collapse, Bashar al-Assad is making one last desperate attempt to regain public support in Syria—by mobilizing for war against Israel. The Hunting of the Moles

The post-war West German government developed an extensive network of informants to counter far-Right extremism.  They may have done precisely the opposite.Archeology Under Attack

After a 90-year closure, the Turks have allowed archeological excavations near the Syrian border at Karkemish, site of a major biblical battle.  But now another battle threatens the site. Reinman’s Tragicomedy

It was a long, winding journey that took Paul Reinman, born Reinmann, from drawing the great synagogue of Worms, Germany to inking comics in America. The Real Hypocrites

On Peter Beinart’s blog, Natan Sharansky was called a human rights hypocrite.  “I want Palestinians to have all the rights in the world,” Sharansky answers, “except the power to destroy me.”Barack vs Bibi?

In spite of Netanyahu's past battles with Obama, and his obvious preference for Mitt Romney, Israeli analysts are hopeful that the two leaders can work together.The Shtetl Remedy

Now that it’s cold season, you could place your hopes in chicken soup and a flu shot.  Or you could try cupping, blood-letting, eating garlic cloves, drinking milk-and-alcohol mixtures . . . (2010)