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Archeology for Haredim

A government-funded archeological park in Modi’in Illit will tell the story of the Second Temple site—by Haredim, to Haredim.Hizballah’s Holiday Home

Europe has cultivated a tacit détente with Hizballah, whereby if Hizballah does not stage attacks, European governments do not interfere with its fundraising and organizational work.Melville in Jerusalem

Hoping to find spiritual uplift, the author of Moby-Dick made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land only to find Jerusalem “half melancholy, half farcical, like all the rest of the world.”Admitting France’s Crimes

“The challenge is to fight tirelessly against all forms of falsification of history: not only the insult of Holocaust denial, but also the temptation of relativism.”Why Does God Create?

Certainly God has no need of creation.  But a creator who doesn’t create is a contradiction.Golda, Golda, Get Lost

In 1971, young Israelis of Mizrahi descent styled themselves as Israeli Black Panthers and declared war “against the Ashkenazi government.”The Writer’s Life

“Please,” they seem to beseech, “what alchemy, what ethereal fire transforms our wordy soup of glottals and fricatives into language and that language into writing . . .” (1999; by the recently deceased humorist) Israel is Not Bluffing

After the collapse of the Congress of Vienna settlement, Europe endured two world wars before establishing a new order. Israel is gearing up for a similar scenario in the Middle East.Directionless Diaspora

As many European and American Jewish institutions become increasingly irrelevant, decrepit, and oligarchic, Diaspora Jewry is facing a serious crisis of leadership.Start-Up Ummah?

A new book argues that amid political instability and the threat of war, the Arab world has seen a rise in entrepreneurship, supported by a large and expanding market.