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Why Strike Sudan?

Although Israel’s supposed attack on a munitions depot in Sudan could have been a straightforward strike on a potential threat, media observers are determined to believe that it meant something deeper. Any Volunteers?

Since the Babylonian Exile, Jews have maintained an ethos of voluntary collective responsibility to sustain their communities. Now, as the welfare state crumbles, that ethos is as valuable as ever. Punishment without Crime

If God prophesies to Abraham that his descendants would be enslaved in a foreign land, why does He ultimately punish the Egyptians?No Child Left Behind

While many Russian Jewish immigrants to America are staunch conservatives, their children’s route to Americanization is through liberal Jewish politics.  The Age of Islamism

Far from being a democratic revolution, the fall of autocracies across the Arab world represents Islamism’s final victory over Arab nationalism—and the beginning of a project to restore the caliphate.Betraying Jabotinsky

By forming an electoral pact with Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud may guarantee victory in the upcoming election; but will that come at the expense of the values on which the party was founded?Saving Sergeant Netanyahu

Following his late brother Yoni to become a commando, Benjamin Netanyahu almost met Yoni's fate in his first battle: “I was nearly killed in a firefight inside the Suez Canal. I mean that literally.”The EU’s Israel Problem

“The reason most Euro-enthusiasts resent Israel is that it is the supreme embodiment of the national principle—that is, of the desire of every people to form their own state.”Mr. Berlin Himself

If Irving Berlin is usually reckoned among the Great American Songbook composers, two new studies of his life and work show that he was perhaps the greatest of them all.Iran’s Conditional Friends

Although the conventional wisdom assumes that Iran could count on the support of Hamas and Hizballah in the event of a war against Israel, current realities suggest otherwise. (PDF)