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Whose Paradise?

Among medieval Muslims, Damascus was famed for its fountains, fruits, and gardens.  But among medieval Jews, it was famed for the Jewish community’s piety.  The Mitzvah of Conversion

It is not only permissible but a mitzvah, the Sepharic rabbi argues, to make it easy for people of Jewish ancestry—like Israel’s Russian immigrants—to convert to Judaism.Satisfaction?

Jews feel “at home in the 21st century,” a time of constant change, says Israel’s President—because “what characterizes Jews above all is dissatisfaction."America’s Israeli Electorate

A poll shows that 85 percent of American-Israelis went for Romney. But some—including Elliot Jager—ask whether they should vote at all.Never Mind Jerusalem; What About Mecca?

The Muslim world is apoplectic about harmless Israeli excavations on the Temple Mount—but when the House of Saud bulldozes Islam’s holiest sites in its holiest city, no one says a word.The Myth of Sepharad

Although Jews of Iberian origin are now referred to as Sephardi, the Jews of the Kingdom of Aragon shared neither language nor liturgy with their brethren in Castile and Andalusia.Herzl House

Situated in the JNF’s first forest, Herzl House was built as a memorial to the Zionist founder; but when Arab rioters murdered Jews in 1929, it served as a sanctuary for the next generation’s pioneers.The Key Factor in Jewish Engagement

It isn’t cost.Lanzmann’s Ladies

The memoir of filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, known for his achievement in Shoah, focuses on other "achievements": "I am the only man with whom Simone de Beauvoir lived a quasi-marital existence." Israel’s un-Bernanke

While most central banks have reduced interest rates to record lows to maintain housing prices, the Bank of Israel’s Stanley Fischer has resisted following suit.  Will he stay the course?