Q&A With Yaakov Amidror, Former Head of the Israeli National Security Council
Netanyahu’s ex-national security adviser says Abbas has a choice between Israeli troops on the Jordan River—or no state at all
How Osama Bin Laden Outsmarted the U.S. and Got What He Wanted
The point of Sept. 11 wasn’t to terrorize the West. It was to get the U.S. out of the Muslim world—and it worked.
Q&A With Abe Foxman, Head of the Anti-Defamation League
The crusader against anti-Semitism on why 2013 was bad for the Jews—and why fixing the world starts with fixing ourselves
Q&A With Art Spiegelman, Creator of ‘Maus’
The influential artist talks about his Jewish Museum retrospective, ‘Mad’ magazine, and how the Shoah trumps art all of the time
Q&A: Benjamin Ginsberg, the Author of ‘How the Jews Defeated Hitler’
His thoughts on Jewish strength, Jewish weakness, and the secret history of the Judeo-Episcopate in America
Red Cavalry, Isaac Babel (1920s)
In Babel’s dark masterpiece, the Soviets fight the Poles and everybody hates the Jews
Herzog, Saul Bellow (1964)
The master’s most autobiographical, and therefore most Jewish, book
The Iron Tracks, Aharon Appelfeld (1998)
The greatest living Jewish writer tackles vengeance
Really the Blues, Mezz Mezzrow (1946)
The Jazz-playing, Jewish Johnny Appleseed of Weed
Correspondence, Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (1992)
Marx and the Messiah in conversation
Did Vladimir Putin Bait a Trap for the United States in Damascus?
Why the Russian president has every reason to cross Barack Obama’s “red line” on Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East
The Mideast Crack-Up
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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