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“Christ at the Checkpoint”

A growing movement seeks to align evangelical Christians with the Palestinian cause.Bon Voyage?

Flaubert and other nineteenth-century French travelers in Palestine groused about wild dogs, the hygiene of the locals, the blight of tourism, and the taste of Dead Sea water.Haredim in the Holocaust

While Yad Vashem downplays the experiences of the religious in the Shoah, Haredim have authored their own books and are building their own museums to teach their children and to memorialize the slain.Chasing Death

To some people, the thought of death is melancholy and enervating; to others, it is a provocation to seize the day. Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah, definitely falls into the second category. A “Holocaust Complex”?

It is not only the Israeli Right that was traumatized by the Holocaust and thus views the world with apprehension. The Israeli peace camp also has a distorted view of the world due to that very same trauma.Calibrating Darkness

In the Warsaw Ghetto, a youngster watches, hears, and mentally records the sights, sounds, and sensations of encroaching murder.Hitler and Pharaoh

The nexus of Passover and Yom Hashoah teaches a single lesson—that persecution of Jews was preceded by the persecutors' sense of victimhood.A Myth for the Misbegotten

Ten years after the Jenin massacre-that-wasn't, what has the press done to correct its fabrications, and to guard against further calumnies?Israel, Where’s Your Instagram?

Israeli entrepreneurs are hitting base hits all year long but they can't seem to get into the World Series.