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One dollar buys you a torrent of blessings from the elderly Russians who sit in the synagogue literally with their hands out: A gut yahr, na zdrovie, they say. Spraznikom.  And those are just the regulars.     Mengele’s Skull

If the trial of Eichmann marks the beginning of the era of the witness, the exhumation of a body thought to be that of Mengele signals the inauguration of the era of forensics in international criminal justice.     Pound Foolish

While Pound hailed Hitler, and Gertrude Stein cheered Franco, William Carlos Williams eschewed doctrine and orthodoxy. Herbert Leibowitz's compelling new biography of the modernist poet shows why. Deflecting a Nuclear Iran

It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons: Tacti­cally, Iran's nuclear program is not yet mature. And strategically, the Islamic Republic is not a sustain­able system. (PDF)    Sha-bot

Can a robot be a Shabbos goy? The question is not simple, but it is not without Talmudic precedent.Incitement and Enlightenment

Even the fact that ultra-Orthodox women work in professions while the men are increasingly cooking and taking care of the children isn't enough. The Left demands a single set of standards for everyone: its own.Music, Conscience, and the Third Reich

By the end of the war it was impossible to claim that art-music was intrinsically improving or ennobling. Although it might have soothed a mass-murderer's savage breast, it had also steadied his gun.Native Son

After Gen. David Petraeus, the greatest single influence on American counterinsurgency practice in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Tunisian-born Jew who has been dead more than 40 years.Re-Inventing the Statue of Liberty

Where did Emma Lazarus's ideas come from? She was not an immigrant; she was a fourth-generation American. And she was not among the huddled masses: her family was among New York's wealthiest.