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Who’s Afraid of a Nuclear Iran?

Israel is—and since 1973, Israel has had reason to think that on the brink of its annihilation, Europe wouldn't act to save it. (Video)Barter in Bartaa

Straddling the Green Line, the village of Bartaa has become a booming market town. Or, rather, the Palestinian half has.History without Witnesses

As the Holocaust disappears from living memory, what matters is not who is speaking but who is listening.Jews, Booze, and Americanization

Prohibition presented a dilemma for Jews: Should they insist on an exemption for sacramental wine, or break with the past for the sake of assimilation?Amid the Alien Corn

By 1965, the now-renowned Orthodox rabbi and writer Aryeh Kaplan had relinquished physics graduate school and took a pulpit position in Mason City, Iowa, at a congregation that only had a late Friday night service. (Part II; part I is here.)        Sabra-Rattling

The latest survey on Israeli religion shows that Labor Zionism's attempt to replace Judaism with Israeliness has failed.X-Rated Dispute in Knesset

The author feels blessed "to live in a country in which an Arab Member of Parliament can wittily abuse a Jewish colleague in a Hebrew that causes my Israeli-born daughter to convulse with hysterics."    Flame War

A science fiction writer would have taken the trouble to devise a plausible explanation for the premise of his novel. Not Ben Marcus, the well-known apostle of "experimental" writing, though.B’shallah: Hands Up!

The stories in this week's reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit. A modern editor, looking for a groovy chapter title, might have called the collection, "Ancient Israel's Bipolar Moment." Or, even more flippantly, "Hands Up!"