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What Makes a Jew a Terrorist?

An IDF spokesman says he wouldn't fire on Jewish rock-throwers. Ehud Barak calls them terrorists. Israel faces the tension between universalistic principles of justice and its highly particular circumstances. Confessions of a Pinkwasher

The New York Times says Israel uses its gay-friendliness as propaganda.  A member of the "independent gay Israel lobby" says the Times gives the government too much credit.     What If the Syrians Had Still Been Here?

Many dismiss the intifada that expelled Syrian troops from Lebanon in 2005.  But Assad would be doing better at crushing the Syrian opposition today had he not lost Lebanon then.    Europe’s Jews Need This Union

The European Union was meant to stifle German hyper-nationalism, but today it has Germany marking all of Europe's fiscal homework. Britain's Jews are nervous.A Jewish Woman Calls for Change

The scholarly work of the late Paula Hyman, who was once dean at the Jewish Theological Seminary, was informed by "sometimes conflicting bonds: to Judaism and to feminism."The Truth Game

The discovery of a key historical document lays to rest one of the longest running debates on the 1948 war. So why has Haaretz tried to distort its contents and suppress it?The Meaning of Hanukkah

In some ways, Christians preserved the story of Hanukkah better than the Jews did.What’s Under the Bridge

The bureaucratic brouhaha over the unsound Mughrabi bridge was really about the attempt by some Muslim leaders to deny Jewish ties to the Temple Mount.Neither/Nor

One Danish writer's idiosyncratic understanding of what constitutes anti-Semitism has yielded a bizarre apologia for Kierkegaard and Luther.