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Mystical Pleasures

There isn't a great deal of kabbalistic poetry, but the best of it epitomizes a potent if lesser-known aspect of Judaism. (Interview by Robyn Creswell)The Liar as Hero

Ilan Pappé, best known for The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), is a hero of the anti-Zionist cause—and a brazen distorter and falsifier of the historical record.  Iron Man

A fitting antidote to Israel Apartheid Week is Vladimir Jabotinsky's magnificent novel Samson (1928), which adheres to the biblical story while giving voice to the unconquerable spirit within Zionism.  The Red Beret and the Rabbis

Religious Zionism is in urgent need of shifting away from the rabbinical and back to the political. But its encounters in that sphere have not always gone smoothly. Game Changer

In the view of a retired Saudi naval commander, the Arab spring would have come much sooner had the Arab world accepted Israel in 1948.The Road to Itamar

I was there. I saw that settlement, I saw the house where that family was destroyed. I spoke to people there. The way it's been reported misses so much.Nietzsche Revisited

How did the writings of the philo-Semitic (or anti-anti-Semitic) philosopher become the inspiration for the murderers of European Jews—and who, today, are his ideological counterparts?The First Woman Rabbi

In the 17th century, Asenath Barazani ran a yeshiva in Kurdistan and was addressed by her colleagues as master, rabbi, and teacher.So Israel Wasn’t the Problem?

The last few months should have finally shattered the illusion that the Israeli-Palestinian question is the key to everything in the Middle East.