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Party of Fraud

Is it not time to expose Hizballah for what it is—no standard-bearer of "resistance" in Lebanon but a worldwide criminal gang—and to prosecute it as such?Crying Fascism

Israeli democracy is weighed down by the attitudes of some Russian immigrants to freedom of expression; but warnings of creeping fascism are misplaced, and never more so than today. Gas Attack

Only now that Israel has identified substantial underwater gas reserves is Hizballah making an issue of maritime borders. Is it, perchance, spoiling for a fight?Six Myths about Anders Behring Breivik

The Norwegian murderer's own words make clear what he was not—for example, neither a fundamentalist Christian nor pro-Israel—as well as what he was.Succeeding Lord Sacks

Britain's next Chief Rabbi will be Orthodox—needless to say. But is it too much to hope that, like Jonathan Sacks, he will also command the respect not only of other Jews but of Britons in general?  Mas’ei: Tz’lafhad’s Daughters and Hamlet

This week's reading, Mas'ei, closes out the book of Numbers. It is named for the travels (masa'ot) of the Israelites during their approximately four-decade sojourn in the wilderness.The Peoplehood Fallacy

What the new communal emphasis on Jewish peoplehood misses: yes, Jews are a people—but only by virtue of their connectedness to the Jewish faith and to the land of Israel.Zooming in on Israel

Think that lately the American media have become obsessed with the Jewish state? A new academic study shows that the obsession goes all the way back to 1950.