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Free Pollard?

Netanyahu's request for the release of the imprisoned spy after 25 years has riled critics of Israel; but it's only a request, and some in Congress say the life sentence is unjust.Truth, Lies, and the Holocaust Novel

In A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin addresses the question of whether, and how, to make literature out of the destruction of European JewryThe Arabs vs. Iran: What They Really Think

Contrary to widespread impression, the WikiLeak cables may be the wrong place to look for how Arab leaders define their policy toward Tehran.Israel and the Innovative Impulse

A special report looks at the partnerships Israeli firms have forged with U.S. companies and the reasons why the Israeli venture-capital business is undergoing a painful period of adjustment. E-Shabbat?

How are observant Jews, who refrain from the use of electricity on the Sabbath, responding to the decline of the print book and the rise of electronic readers?A Fictional Future

Alan Dershowitz's The Trials of Zion is a legal thriller based on the intractability of enmities in the Middle East. But is the author as good a novelist as he is a defense attorney?From Beauty to Brutalism

Three architects left their individual marks on Israel; it's time to get out from under the heavy-handed idiom of the third one.No Saint

A global symbol of reconciliation and goodness, Desmond Tutu trails a long history of ugly hatred toward the Jewish people, religion, and state.A Renaissance Jew

Elijah Levita (1469-1549) was a linguist, poet, and humanist who cultivated close relationships with Christian Hebraists and biblical scholars of the day.