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The “Arab Spring” and Washington

  A fact eluding American policy makers is that every authoritarian regime is authoritarian in its own way—that Hosni Mubarak was no Saddam Hussein, nor even a Bashar Assad.Irving Kristol and the Rabbis

Was the neoconservative intellectual also a "neo-Orthodox" Jew?Exile to Main Street

Large-scale emigration, as Israel is now seeing, is particularly problematic given the state's relatively small population, unique ethnic composition, and regional political context.The Convert’s Contribution

Converts bring to Judaism a valuable outsiders' perspective—and a reminder of the Jews' own history as outsiders.  From Harvard to Entebbe

Thirty-five years after Yonatan Netanyahu (a brother of the prime minister) was killed while leading the heroic hostage-rescue mission, his classmates remember their singular peer.Ties that Bind

The Wimpel, a Torah sash unique to German Jewry, was sewn from the cloth used to swaddle a baby boy after circumcision.      Back to the Future

From the late 1990's till now, Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to make progress toward peace have been thwarted by American Presidents with different ideas.Shrinking in the Apple

Not only has the number of Jews in New York City slipped below a million, but the flavor of Jewish life in the city is not what it once was.Touched by a Jewish Angel

Christian themes typify the work of the late actor Michael Landon (Highway to Heaven); sometimes, though, a Jewish sensibility bursts forth.