Department of Homeland Security
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After Christmas Day bombing, Israel knows best
Homeland Security Inspired by Jews
Plus, Yids make crafty little guards
The Napkin Artist
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
The Mideast Crack-Up
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Hannah Arendt, Guilty Pleasure
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By Clémence Boulouque — As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar testJohn Kerry’s Silly Play
By Lee Smith — The secretary of state prattles about imaginary treaties while the Arab world is engulfed by a Sunni-Shia civil warDumb and Dumber
By David P. Goldman — How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle EastHappy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger
By Gil Troy — The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90
Religious Labor
By Elliott Horowitz — Israeli society debates the value of Haredi jobs, but Patrick Leigh Fermor saw the ultra-Orthodox hard at work
The Mideast Crack-Up
By David Samuels — Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
By Rachel Shukert — You may think you know where this column is going. You’d be wrong.
New York Rabbi’s Awful Award
By Jeremy Menchik — Why is a Jewish group dedicated to tolerance honoring a politician who has failed to support religious minorities?
Go Superfreak!
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Our Arrested Development
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Glenn Greenwald Terrorizes Logic
By Zach Novetsky — On the Guardian columnist's response to the terror attack in London
When Berlin Meant Business
By Vox Tablet — Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
Cutting Family Ties
By Rebecca Klempner — The cards my Christian paternal grandparents sent me as a child came with small checks—and a hidden agenda
Ed Koch’s Catholic Send-off
By Jonathan R. Cohen — The former mayor, who had a deep relationship with Catholicism, will be memorialized in a Mass at St. Patrick's
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