Culture

Sharansky’s identity problem

Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who now chairs the Shalem Center‘s Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies (yes, that Adelson), says all of Israel’s current problems can be traced to one core problem: the decline of Israel’s Zionist identity. It is to blame for changes made in the 1990s to Israel’s code of military conduct, which […]

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The Jackie Robinson of Yiddish

The New Standard, which bills itself as “Central Ohio’s Largest Circulation Jewish Newspaper,” has a profile on Colleen McCallum-Bonar, a graduate student at Ohio State who is poised to be the first African-American ever to receive a Ph.D. in Yiddish literature (at least she thinks she will be). “I can count on one hand the […]

Freeing Samir Kuntar

In a follow-up to his recent piece arguing for ignoring Israel’s national interest and releasing terrorists in exchange for captive Israeli soldiers, former Rabin aide Eitan Haber writes in Thursday’s Ynet that convicted murderer Samir Kuntar should be freed by Israel, if needed. Kuntar is the Lebanese Druse who snuck into Israel in 1979 and […]

Hitchens’ good war — against Pat Buchanan

Time to bolster Hamas?

Beware of war

The mitzvah of redeeming Jewish captives

The shark and the fish

BBYO to steer clear of Rubashkin’s

Exploring the Jewish community press’ election coverage

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