East Jerusalem
Daybreak: Holiday Test
Iran threatens, Barak is sued, Madoff victims stew, and more in the news
U.S. Shift on E. Jerusalem: Bad, or Wrong?
One blogger is worried about the change, another doesn’t buy it
The Mideast Crack-Up
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
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
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Hannah Arendt, Guilty Pleasure
By J. Hoberman — Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and MossadA Growing Fear in France
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 warHappy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger
By Gil Troy — The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90Religious Labor
By Elliott Horowitz — Israeli society debates the value of Haredi jobs, but Patrick Leigh Fermor saw the ultra-Orthodox hard at work
Dumb and Dumber
Our Arrested Development
Glenn Greenwald Terrorizes Logic
The Mideast Crack-Up
Go Superfreak!
New York Rabbi’s Awful Award
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
A Memorial Day of Hope
When Berlin Meant Business
Cutting Family Ties
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When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.


