February 20
How a War and a Love Affair Changed the History of Yiddish Theater
The story of the Vilna Troupe.
February 19
The Impossibility of Unilateral Withdrawal from the West Bank
What Benny Gantz gets wrong.
America’s Middle East Allies Should Not Be Paying for Syria’s Reconstruction
Not a humanitarian endeavor.
Hamas Is Creating a Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
With a little help from Mahmoud Abbas.
The Spoils of War in Jewish Law
The Torah permits plunder, but also disapproves.
The Thin Line between Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism in 20th-Century Japan
The Protocols made Jews seem appealing.
February 18
European Aid to the Middle East Is Shaped by a Political Agenda
An agenda that includes hostility toward Israel.
Morality, Not Money, Is Behind U.S. Support for Israel
It’s not about the Benjamins.
The Enduring Legacy of Iran’s Call for Salman Rushdie’s Death
From the Danish cartoon to widespread self-censorship.
How the Talmud Anticipated Behavioral Economics
From ancient tort laws to modern Israeli psychologists.
Orthodox Rabbis Debate New York State’s New Abortion Law
An expansion of freedom to follow halakhah, or a license to kill?
February 15
Iran Is Back on Israel’s Doorstep
What Monday’s shelling in the Golan portends.
What Middle Easterners Really Think about the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Do populations agree with their leaders?
German Anti-Americanism, the Holocaust, and the Jews
Filling the vacuum left when anti-Semitism went out of fashion.
