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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.Diplomacy, Flotilla Style

If diplomacy stopped this year's flotilla to Gaza, could it have stopped last year's? Off the Path

Dropouts from Orthodoxy are growing in number, but many of them never leave completely; in this there may be a peculiar sign of hope.I’m Not Marching

A unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood represents, at the moment, more of a danger to the chance of implementing a two-state solution than a way of promoting it.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.