War

Forgotten soldiers and a forgotten war.

Nov. 13 2017 12:01AM

Is there a universal connection between war and flowers?

Feb. 28 2017 12:01AM

How the Hasmoneans changed halakhah.

Dec. 29 2016 12:01AM

Two flowers and an oleander.

May 5 2016 12:01AM

Mordecai the Machiavellian.

Feb. 23 2016 12:01AM

A group of historians recently visited Israel’s current prime minister with a commemorative volume of documents about his predecessor Menachem Begin. A conversation about the. . .

Nov. 25 2014 12:01AM

These days, the word is used almost exclusively to describe any action, defensive or responsive, by Israel. Can someone point me in the direction of a proportionate war?

Maureen Lipman
Sept. 15 2014 12:01AM

In his 1864 march through Georgia, the great general successfully broke the resistance of the Confederacy. Has the IDF been channeling his genius?

Aug. 25 2014 12:01AM

By the UN’s own figures, the percentage of women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes is far lower than the percentage killed by. . .

Aug. 22 2014 12:01AM

Opinion makers now claim that even if Israel meets its military objectives in Gaza, it will “lose long-term”; they’re entirely wrong.   

Aug. 6 2014 12:01AM

A single conflict now stretches from Baghdad to Beirut. How many sides are there—and whose side is the U.S. on?

July 2 2014 5:22PM

For American Jewish soldiers in Europe, World War II “dog-tags” posed an extra source of peril. According to Jewish religious law, were they free to. . .

Akiva Males
April 9 2014 12:01AM

Even in times of relative quiet, one can never forget war in the “city of peace”; yet, as its inhabitants demonstrate, one can also be. . .

Elahzar Rao
Feb. 19 2014 12:01AM

“A great melancholy emerges from Joshua’s life story, a sadness that stays with him to the end of his days. Is it because his life. . .

Elie Wiesel
Aug. 13 2013 12:00AM