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Friends Indeed

It was the 2004 Madrid bombings that convinced José María Aznar, then the prime minister of Spain, that "the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel."The Divine Sarah

Sarah Bernhardt rose from humble origins to become the world's most famous actress; but about the "real" Bernhardt, including the Jewish Bernhardt, there seems little to report.The Ground beneath His Feet

A Ramallah lawyer has written a book about walking through the hills in a path that is increasingly circumscribed because of Israeli land grabs—or is it?A Royal Return

Two thousand years after an Assyrian queen converted to Judaism and visited Jerusalem, her sarcophagus has returned to Israel.Kosherize Me

In her new book, Sue Fishkoff notes that the expansion of the kosher food industry has, ironically, caused kosher food to become invisible.Fiddler in the Rough

Directing a summer camp production of Fiddler on the Roof means turning shy, sniveling campers into the boisterous residents of Anatevka. (Part 3 of 4.)Fidel the Philo-Semite?

Denouncing anti-Semitism so as to ingratiate himself with American Jews, the Cuban dictator cannot help betraying his conspiratorial belief in an all-powerful Jewish lobby.Not Your Grandfather’s Sukkah

From the Fall issue: an architectural competition produces a number of visually impressive entries better at capturing the sukkah's impermanence than its capacity to embrace and ennoble.Kafka’s Last Trial

In the coming weeks, a court-appointed group will finish inventorying the disputed Kafka papers and settle the legal wrangling in a situation that has repeatedly been called Kafkaesque.Dear Hannah, Dear Leni

The correspondence between Hannah Arendt and the Holocaust historian Leni Yahil, whose friendship during the Eichmann trial ended abruptly with the publication of Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem.