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HOW TO FIGHT ANTI-SEMITISMBy Bari Weiss Bari Weiss has written what must be judged a brave book. That it must be is a badge of shame for the ''progressive'' America [...]

ALTHOUGH THE WORLD and the new Obama administration continue to pin their hopes on it, a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would involve the removal of all Jewish [...]

ON JUNE 6, 1982, following the collapse of a year-long truce between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Israeli army invaded a Lebanon torn by years of civil war. [...]

LAST OCTOBER 9, the evening of Yom Kippur, Jewish-Arab riots broke out in the Israeli coastal city of Acre. They began with the stoning by Jewish youths of an Arab [...]

Kosher Demons Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales by Howard Schwartz Oxford. 544 pp. $34.95 COLLECTIONS OF Jewish tales, of which Howard Schwartz, a professor [...]

AT THE time, it seemed so imaginative an exegesis that I thought of doing something fictional with it. In the end, nothing came of it. The other night, though, I [...]

EIGHT YEARS ago, I published an article in these pages called 'Wandering Jews--and Their Genes' (September 2000). At the time I was working on a book about a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic [...]

AS ANYONE following the campaign rhetoric of Barack Obama and his supporters will have noticed, this has been a season for 'repairing the world.' It is also a time, then, [...]

MY FIRST paid translation went unpaid. It was commissioned by an Israeli writer named Matti Megged, who, in 1959 or '60, toured America on a grant from a U.S. foundation [...]

Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship by Martin Gilbert Henry Holt. 384 pp. $30.00 Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky Yale. 368 pp. $35.00 IN THE […]

THE PEEL Commission report (that was in 1937), the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry's recommendations (1946), the UN partition resolution (1947), the Bernadotte plan (1948), the Lausanne conference (1948-49), Security Council […]

OF ALL the criticisms that have been leveled at Israel over the Palestinian question, the harshest may be those made of Jewish settlement in the occupied territories, particularly the West […]

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado Ecco. 352 pp. $25.95 LUCETTE LAGNADO was seven years old […]

SHORTLY BEFORE my ninth birthday, in the spring of 1948, as the British were preparing to leave Palestine and let the Jews and Arabs fight it out between themselves, I […]

L'AFFAIRE BURG, as it might be called because of its French connection, may be a tempest in a teapot, but it is the kind of teapot that whistles. On the […]

THE 10TH century of the Common Era was not an outwardly dramatic one in the annals of Judaism. Momentous events did not take place in it; new spiritual movements did […]

CAN ISRAEL, as the prime minister of Iran has bluntly put it, be wiped from the map? Of course it can be. The Iranian nuclear-weapons program has only added to […]

WITHIN THE last year, three serious Jewish historians have published books on religiously motivated violence in historical Jewish communities, a subject rarely written about in the past. Can this be […]

ISRAEL HAS entered a waiting period--and waiting is never easy. It involves the admission, potentially frustrating and even demoralizing, that one's ability to change things for the better is highly [...]

TEL AVIV, the 'first Hebrew city,' as it was once the fashion to call it, will soon turn one hundred--and, like the United States at that age, its frontier is [...]

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren Norton. 672pp. $35.00 ALTHOUGH THE writing of history comes in infinite hues, these [...]

WHY WOULD the reader of a slim volume of short stories by an American Jewish writer he has never read before jump from the bed on which he has been [...]

ON AUGUST 12, two days before the ceasefire in Lebanon took hold, Ari Shavit, a prominent Israeli journalist and contributor to the New Yorker, published an opinion piece in the [...]