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A Brutal Teacher

Those who wish for Middle East peace must reckon with the lessons that bitter experience has taught Israelis; here are ten of them.A Life in Letters

Zvi Narkis, who has died at eighty-nine, was one of the most significant designers of modern Hebrew typefaces, placing his stamp on everything from cheese wrappers to currency to the Jerusalem Bible.Right of Return

Although certified as Jewish by two rabbinical courts, a backsliding convert to Christianity has been denied Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return—but, in a novel and suggestive ruling, invited to try again.Crescent Rising

A new book presents early Islam as tolerant, open, and ecumenical—an appealing picture, but false to the historical record.Shoftim: Judgment Call

"Judges and officers shall you make for yourself in all your gates," we are told at the opening of this week's reading, "and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment." The declaration seems obvious at first blush. Who wouldn't want righteous judges? Yet the Bible—more so, perhaps, than any other text of the ancient world—is singularly attentive to this issue of judges, making it into one of the central demands of the Torah.What Israel-Palestinian Peace Won’t Fix

A useful fiction to Western governments, even more useful as a propaganda tool of Arab and Muslim regimes, the term "linkage" masks an empty and dangerous illusion.Grand Delusion

When it came to nationalism, the late historian and intellectual Tony Judt kept one set of books for Europe and the world and another, invidious one, for the Jewish state.Hasidism Spoken Here

Yehuda Krinsky, the Chabad leader named by Newsweek as America's most influential rabbi, answers questions about the Rebbe, Bob Dylan, Mayor Bloomberg, e-mail, and more.Cantors, Klezmorim, and Crooners

A wide-ranging compilation of Jewish soul music from the first half of the 20th century has been skillfully re-mastered and released in a 3-CD set. (With audio clips.)