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Boycotts and Free Speech

Denunciations of Israel's new anti-boycott law are wrong in principle and hold the Jewish state to a standard never applied to, or employed by, other nations.The Problem with Peoplehood

Lately a communal obsession, and an important Jewish idea, "peoplehood" is not the only important idea. Nor, when detached from issues of content, purpose, and mission, is it even a meaningful one.Will Israel Endure?

A new French book painstakingly demonstrates the Jewish claim to Israel on the basis of historical, linguistic, legal, and genetic evidence, even as it asks: why is this still an issue?The Voice

Before becoming the voice of Bugs Bunny and 400 other characters, Mel Blanc was a Jewish boy doing impressions of his immigrant neighbors in Portland, Oregon.How Not to Have a Palestinian State

The Fatah-Hamas rush to declare statehood will impede the formation of civil society on the West Bank and is just another device to delegitimize the state of Israel.A Test for Arab Reformers

State-sanctioned lies about Israel and the West have a long history in the Arab world; why not open the archives at last, and let the truth spring forth?The Ghosts of Shanghai

Of the 30,000 Jews who found refuge from Hitler in the Chinese port city, only to be expelled by the Communists in 1949, little remains but tombstones, and these are hard to find.Torah and Military Ethics

A wildly controversial book by two Israeli rabbis has been lambasted as racist and an incitement to violence; the first charge is true, the second false.