Hamas
Admin. Presses Case Against Goldstone Report
And continued speculation on why Goldstone changed his mind
Daybreak: Gaza Back-and-Forth Continues
Plus U.N. posturing, Lebanese blaming, and more in the news
Attack on School Bus Prompts Instant Response
Israel fires on Gaza City for first time since Cast Lead
Sundown: Let Him Go to Berlin
Plus a classic anti-Nazi comic book, the Beastie Boys, and more
Fashionable
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is every bit as dangerous and thuggish as his autocratic counterparts across the Middle East, yet for some reason Washington continues to embrace him
Sundown: Palestinian Engineer Charged
Plus, the man in the white Charvet shirts, and more
Goldstone Retracts Israeli War Crimes Claim
Author of eponymous report asserts Israel did not target civilians
Shock Waves
The renewed violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may be tied to the wave of unrest in the Arab world—as a distraction meant to lure the U.S. back to a failed peace process
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
