A Cold War anniversary reminds us not to take history for granted
| 7:00 AM Nov 4, 2009
Next week the world will mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, which took place 20 years ago. It happens that I was there at the time. I think of it as one of the most memorable events I’ve covered in a long newspaper life, though it is not unalloyed. It instructs that in our ...
Germany’s ever-evolving struggle with anti-Semitism
| 11:50 AM Jun 5, 2008
Was there ever a more favorable time to be an American in Germany? I wasn’t here during the Berlin airlift as the sky filled with small parachuted packages of raisins floating down from U.S. bomber planes. So maybe then. But the symbolic weight of Obama’s win seemed to redeem us all in German eyes. On ...
Chicago lawyer Alan Solow is the putative spokesman for American Jewry, but does he have what it takes to manage the community's increasingly complex relationship with the Obama Administration?
George Friedman built a private, subscription-based CIA. But is his intel any good?
Photos of the Jewish-themed Mardi Gras groups, the Krewe du Jieux and the Krewe du Mishigas
The Quranic argument for Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel
Evangelical Christians have emerged as Israel’s staunchest allies—even as some American Jews are made uneasy by the show of support
A new book offers a history of Jewish terrorism in Israel from the Maccabees to the present
At this spring’s World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, Israel will show off its burgeoning bilateral relationship with the host country
How Mirra Alfassa went from being a French bohemian to an Indian goddess
How the Mossad assassinated my tropical vacation
