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The Chinese Kabbalist

In an interview, the scholar Ying Han reveals her first impressions of Jews, the similarities between Hillel's teachings and Confucianism, and how a translating assignment led her to pursue a PhD in Jewish literature and Kabbalah.The Heartbreaking Boy Gilad

There are many good reasons to oppose the deal for the release of Gilad Shalit.  But until history has its say, let us rejoice in the kidnapped soldier's homecoming.Be Joyful

"And you will rejoice," the Bible commands with regard to Sukkot. But can even God summon up joy on demand? (2010)Vandalism and Evenhandedness

Compared to the outcry against the tiny minority of Israelis engaging in violence against Arabs, the fact that Arab violence against Jewish targets is not considered worthy of much indignation is of great concern.MausTrap

Art Spiegelman's "survivor's tale" is a painstakingly-researched work, rooted in his father's memories of life in Hitler's Europe and in the death camps.  So why did it top the fiction charts?    A State is Born

How did the (possibly pro-Arab) United Nations Special Committee on Palestine come to recommend the creation of Israel in 1947?Mighty Jacobson

However darkly comic and compelling, the thick Manchester jargon and Yiddishisms of Howard Jacobson's Mighty Walzer may prove prohibitive for American readers.      Ignoring Hamas

Rather than deal with troubling Palestinian realities, world leaders seem to pay attention to Gaza only when there is a confrontation involving Israel. Born Again

There is pervasive anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on British campuses; just ask a British student, raised to venerate Hitler as a hero, who has now become a Zionist.