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A Nice Little Family

I.J. Singer's The Brothers Ashkenazi is a sweeping historical novel of East European Jewry, and an eerie foretelling of that world's eventual fate.The Worm Turns

What's missing from the New York Times story naming the U.S. and Israel as co-developers of the Stuxnet worm?  The evidence.   Sun Sets on “Israel Horizons”

Meretz USA has pulled the plug on a magazine that for more than a half-century was the English voice of left-wing Zionism.Yitro: The Commandments and the Man

There's something confounding about the way the Torah presents the delivery of the Ten Commandments in this week's reading. The revelation at Sinai, the centerpiece of God's message and perhaps the most influential single text ever given to mankind, appears against the backdrop of two poignantly human stories that consistently undercut the mythic stature of Moses. Bald Jewish Women

Three early-19th-century sources cite an edict demanding that married Jewish women shave their heads. Or was the report just a misunderstanding?Fragment of the Month

Piece by ragged piece, researchers are reconstructing the long-lost Hebrew text of the apocryphal book of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus).Combat Manual

Training its soldiers in the new style of urban warfare, the Israeli army uses advanced technology to spare civilians and sacred buildings, both often put deliberately in harm's way.The Cookbook Collector

Rabbi Robert Sternberg, a dedicated aficionado of culinary literature, knows not only what kosher ingredient to substitute for oysters but the cultural back-story of many a Jewish recipe.Amigos?

Twenty-five years after Spain and Israel established diplomatic ties, the relationship has landed on rocky terrain.Only in Israel

Sayed Kashua is a bestselling novelist, satirist, and sitcom writer