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Ecce Maslow

When Abraham Maslow’s mother found her son feeding stray kittens milk from one of her good dishes, she dashed the tiny animals’ brains out. Maslow wondered why he didn’t turn out psychotic. Covering For Csatáry

Until last week, the Hungarian government was content to let the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal live out his days in peace without ever standing trial.Wade in the Water

With demands on the Jordan River from three countries, the biblical-era torrent has become a mere polluted stream. But Israel is planning to restore it to its former glory.Calumny and “Closure”

Struggling to remain impartial, a writer’s memoir of a summer in Lithuania ends up little more than a collage of wide-eyed postcards from a land whose history she struggles, and mostly fails, to decipher.  Casus Belli?

Wednesday's terror attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, coupled with the fear that Hizballah could obtain Syria's chemical weapons may presage a new war on Israel's northern border.Seeking VMAT2

While scientists have recently confirmed the existence of the “God particle,” the “God gene,” theorized to predispose individuals to religiosity, has proved more elusive to find. Israel’s Chinese Insurance

Israel’s planned railway will offer a detour around the Suez Canal.  And if this irks the Egyptians, they will still think twice before interfering with a Chinese government project.    Shabbes or Showbiz?

“I could overcome my Jewish inhibition of making the sign of the cross on stage because, as an actor, ‘there is no facet of human nature alien to myself.’”