The Heights
U.S. and Israeli policymakers are yet to acknowledge that their decades-long push to use the Golan to make peace with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a far-fetched dream
Bomb Proof
The 1967 Soviet-Egyptian intervention in Israel is a lesson in how not to block a Mideast bomb
Good Samaritans
Israel’s smallest religious minority offers Jews a glimpse of what might have been
City of Refuge
Twenty-eight years after he left, an evacuee from Sinai’s largest abandoned settlement looks back at his onetime neighbors’ sad history
Jerusalem Daze
In Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, Kai Bird recalls growing up in the Middle East as a diplomat’s son
Sundown: Jordan Demands Dead Sea Scrolls
Plus the slain Iranian physicist, Dysentery-a, and more
Ben-Gurion
Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
