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“A Great Compliment Paid the Jews”

In July 1788, New York State’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution was far from a sure thing. But its supporters still postponed a huge parade out of respect for a Jewish fast day (observed again this Sunday).    All Quiet on the Hamas Front?

While Gaza’s terrorist overlords remain implacably opposed to the very existence of the Jewish state, over the last fifteen months Israel and Hamas have found themselves facing common enemies.Inquisition Tourism

Five hundred years after the expulsion of Jews, and twenty since their official readmittance, scarcely any Jews live in Spain today. But a new tourist campaign hopes at least to bring them back on vacation.A Martyr’s Death for Arafat?

Despite the most recent conspiracy theory, Fatah’s old guard has much greater reason to claim that Yasser Arafat was poisoned than Israel ever had to assassinate him.Tied Together and Distinct

Jeffrey Eugenides’s Marriage Plot suggests that in our age of moral confusion, marriage is a lesser problem.  In Hillel Halkin’s astonishingly rich first novel, marriage is the moral problem.