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Israel and the Innovative Impulse

A special report looks at the partnerships Israeli firms have forged with U.S. companies and the reasons why the Israeli venture-capital business is undergoing a painful period of adjustment. E-Shabbat?

How are observant Jews, who refrain from the use of electricity on the Sabbath, responding to the decline of the print book and the rise of electronic readers?A Fictional Future

Alan Dershowitz's The Trials of Zion is a legal thriller based on the intractability of enmities in the Middle East. But is the author as good a novelist as he is a defense attorney?From Beauty to Brutalism

Three architects left their individual marks on Israel; it's time to get out from under the heavy-handed idiom of the third one.No Saint

A global symbol of reconciliation and goodness, Desmond Tutu trails a long history of ugly hatred toward the Jewish people, religion, and state.A Renaissance Jew

Elijah Levita (1469-1549) was a linguist, poet, and humanist who cultivated close relationships with Christian Hebraists and biblical scholars of the day. Sh’mot: Six Women and Moses

In a series of crucial moments in the Torah, the deepest instincts of salvation come to the fore and powerful, unthinking truths prove to be the path not only to righteousness but to redemption. These are moments that often appear to contradict ideas of universal right and wrong; in them, the affirmation of self obliterates fairness and equanimity, love trumps law, and saving your child or your future is the only right worth knowing. They involve the intervention of women.Uncle Elie Comes Back to Egypt

An Egyptian journalist hosts a visiting member of the Jewish community forced out under Nasser in the late 1960s. "Personally, I believe we owe our Egyptian Jewish brothers an apology."