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To Ransom or Not to Ransom?

As demands for the release of captive soldiers grow ever more exorbitant, when is the price simply too high to pay?Fronds on the Front Lines

The lulav was such a central symbol of victory that in the midst of his revolt against Rome (132-5 C.E.), Bar Kokhba ordered a special supply for his troops. (PDF)  Fifth Column

Hundreds of professors and lecturers, employed by Israel's state-financed universities, are building careers as full-time activists working against the very country in which they live.Mozart for Nazis?

The Mozart "industry" prospered under the Third Reich—but saw numerous attempts to emphasize Mozart's Germanness and to distance the composer from his known associations with Freemasonry.Who’s a Zionist?

Those who support policies that endanger Israel, suggests the founder of J Street.Absolute Citron

"It's easier to grow 2,000 acres of oranges or lemons than to grow one acre of etrogs," says California citrus farmer John Kirkpatrick, the only large-scale grower of the fruit in the U.S. Academe Award

Set in the Hebrew University's Talmud department, Footnote is a film of serious philosophical inquiry, cloaked in winking academic gossip for those in the know.     Does Anyone Speak Arabic?

Arab nationalists promoted the idea that anyone who speaks Arabic is an Arab. But for centuries, very few Middle Easterners have spoken the language called standard Arabic.The Marriage of Semite and Anti-Semite

In Aharon Appelfeld's newest novel, an Austrian Jewish woman's disastrous marriage to an anti-Semite is much like European Jewry's disastrous marriage to Austria and Germany.