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The Man Who Stood Alone

Yitzhak Shamir fled Poland for Palestine, determined to live his commitment to Jewish self-reliance.  He did so with unswerving vision, until his death this past Saturday. Roots of the Right

Despite Ben-Gurion’s attempts to silence Begin, the uncompromising commitment to peace and security upheld by Begin, Shamir, and now Netanyahu came to win the hearts of the Israeli people.The Literature of Conversion

Few outsiders to religion understand that conversion changes a person’s reading habits: Rilke gives way to Ratzinger, or Hemingway to the Hafetz Hayim.How I Became an Islamist

Now a democratic activist, at the time the author joined the pan-Islamic Hizb ut Tahrir, he was a disaffected British teenager who had never read the Koran.Why Do Hasidim Dress Like That?

 “Does anybody ask a congressman why he walks into Congress with a suit or a Wall Street executive why he goes to work in a suit?”