Q&A: Middle East Scholar Aaron David Miller on Syria and Israel
The United States, Russia, China, France and Britain reached a UN Security Council resolution this week to compel Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons stock...
Pilgrimage to Uman
Almost 200 years after Rebbe Nachman’s death, his followers flock to a once-closed Soviet town to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
by Nadine Epstein
I’m on a bus to...
A House Divided
Following the end of apartheid, students living in the dorms of the University of the Free State in South Africa heartily embraced integration. At first it went well, then the students chose to resegregate. What caused social progress to surge forward and then reverse course?
From Iraq With Love
by Sala Levin
Located at the geographic crossroads of Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Israel is a kettle of culinary confluence. Perhaps the...
Will Catholic-Jewish Relations Improve Under Pope Francis?
“We have been given arguably the most positive result one could want in terms of Catholic-Jewish relations,” Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious and intergroup...
South African Government Adopts BDS Measures
The African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa and the party of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, has voted in its annual conference to...
Clifford D. May: The Mirage of the Arab Spring
The Islamist movement could sabotage democratic reforms in the Arab world.
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So...
Amy E. Schwartz: Turkey: Where Doth Erdogan Lead?
Turkish Jews—like everyone else—ponder Islam’s growing presence in a secular country.
Is There a Future for Tunisia’s Jews?
Tunisia is one of the success stories of the Arab spring. But can its Jews—who have lived in relative peace with their Muslim neighbors for...
David Hazony: Israel Catches a “Flytilla” with (Serious) Satire
First off, let me be clear that I do not condone Israel’s official use of sarcasm, wit or anything else that could be construed as...
A Priest Bears Witness
Father Patrick Desbois is on a mission to uncover the mass graves of nearly two million Jews. Sixty years after the Holocaust, time is running...
Does Syria Matter?
The Obama Administration is expected to support talks between Syria and Israel as part of its efforts to negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Tony Badran, Tom Dine, Martin Indyk, Joshua Landis, Moshe Ma’oz, Michael Oren, David Schenker and Andrew Tabler on whether a Syrian-Israeli deal is in the cards.