Michael Weiss
Fatah Gives Up on Obama
According to memo obtained by AP
Israel’s D.C. Embassy Slaps Down J Street
Bad PR for the left-leaning Israel lobby group
Peres, Wiesel Congratulate Obama
Citing hope, intellect, blackness
Why Bibi Was Right to Refute Iranian Holocaust Denial
Oren explains in ‘TNR’
Israel Is ‘Lighting Matches’ in Jerusalem
Charges Erekat, dimming hopes for peace deal
Benjamin Disraeli, Modern Icon?
Simon Doonan Says So
Iran-Style Anti-Semitism Spreading in Latin America
First Venezuela, now Honduras
Goldstone Report Won’t Go to Security Council
But it might mean the end of limited Israel wars
Is Israel at Risk
Of joining the Third World?
U.S. Jews Still Support Obama on Israel
But less than they do Netanyahu, and less than they did in November
Ben-Gurion
The Eichmann Trial
Sacred Trash
The Tenth Man
The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place
The Dispossessed
Hugo Chávez is ramping up his assault on Venezuela’s upper class, and now a rare Jewish paradise is squarely in his sights. Can it be salvaged?
- Daphne Merkin chats with Joseph Cedar, the director of the Oscar-nominated FOOTNOTE http://t.co/UWJjpoWl
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Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
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St. Leonard’s Passion
Leonard Cohen releases his 12th album, Old Ideas. The troubadour and poet hasn’t always been popular, but he is always profound.by Liel LeibovitzFace Off
The Israeli leadership is at war with itself over Iran: In one corner, Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. In the other, former Mossad chief Meir Dagan.by Yossi MelmanWriting Footnote
Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Network, and the nightmare scenario behind his latest Academy Award-nominated filmby Daphne MerkinSentimental Journey
In the new collected stories of Nathan Englander, and in his revised Haggadah, Jews cling tenuously to the easily broken chains of traditionby Adam KirschPregnant Pause
Pregnancies are fertile ground for superstition, especially for those who assume their traditions and lucky charms are based in Jewish lawby Allison Hoffman




