Ben-Gurion repeatedly faced down crises by fearlessly rejecting retreat and useless compromise. Obama would do well to follow his model.

The mad popularity of Dirty Dancing explains Ronald Reagan’s ideological victory and the ongoing crisis of American politics

Republicans are once again arguing that American Jews will abandon the Democratic Party. But it won’t happen, because Jews recoil from the GOP’s overt Christianity, even when it comes with staunch pro-Israel views.

Newt Gingrich has long relied on the financial largesse of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, a Republican Jewish Coalition leader. But now the money man is facing trouble, and that could be the former speaker’s undoing.

Twenty years after the fall of the USSR, the 1990s wave of Russian-Jewish immigrants is a reliably Republican voting bloc. But as their children assimilate, Russian Jews’ politics get harder to pin down.

The foiled Yemeni bomb plot shows why anti-Semitism isn’t only about Jews

A new book gives an insider’s assessment of four Israeli prime ministers—and Menachem Begin the voice he never had

As Netanyahu arrives in Washington a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement couldn’t be further away

Noshing at the White House, last month and through the years

The case for Ulysses S. Grant