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New Ottoman Empire?

In the uncertain wake of the Arab Spring, Turkey is trying to reassert itself as the leader of the surrounding Arab countries. How? By escalating tensions with Israel.Non serviam

In granting the writer Yoram Kaniuk the right to be officially registered as "without religion" (rather than Jewish), Israel has taken a giant step toward the legal separation of religion and state.The Mind of Trilling

It was Lionel Trilling's "moral imagination" that enabled him to venture into areas normally foreign to literary critics—including Jewish philosophy. My Summer in Jordan

Traveling in the Middle East, an American student expected to encounter anti-Semitism. But he was unprepared to discover how retrograde and pervasive it was.The Audacity of Faith

A biography of Yehuda Amital reveals a daringly exuberant figure whose journey led from a Nazi labor camp to a unique and controversial place in Israeli religious and political life.  Reviving the Dead Sea Scrolls

Google's digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls will enable easy public viewing and radically advance the tools, and the cause, of historical scholarship.Oil from the Rock

Do Israel's shale deposits hold as much oil as there is in Saudi Arabia, and can it be gotten out?Plato and the Talmud

Philosophically, "Athens" and "Jerusalem" represent wholly incompatible viewpoints on the truth. Not so, argues a new book. (PDF)In Memoriam: Emanuel Litvinoff

The prolific British poet, novelist, and screenwriter raised his voice in protest against the fate of the Jews.