By Tamara Cofman Wittes The United States needs to accept that the days of one-man rule are gone forever. Three years after the hopeful scenes of the Arab Spring, the situation in places like Syria and Libya looks more like a tragic mess. The most dramatic reversal of...
By Robert Satloff Differing approaches to Iran's nuclear program do not bode well for Israel in 2014. Israel begins 2014 facing a truly Dickensian moment—enjoying the best of times while staring at the worst of times. Since Jewish DNA tends to accentuate the negative, let’s first focus on...
Recent discoveries of large natural gas reserves off Israel’s coast will soon transform the country into an energy exporter, and bring in billions of dollars in new revenue. But the new finds also open up a Pandora’s Box of environmental, financial, social, security and foreign...
Syria is a perfect example of how this 1990s concept has fallen out of favor // By Ben Cohen...
Syria’s descent into chaos and extremism does not bode well for its neighbors....
Joan Nathan, the queen of Jewish American and Israeli cookbooks, takes to the old continent in her new book, Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France. Nathan returns to the country where she spent several years of her youth and wends her...
Few films have packed as much punch for American political culture as Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments. With the Cold War shifting into high gear and a fervent anti-communist patriotism sweeping the nation, the film burst onto the scene at a time when...
Two years after the dawn of the Arab Spring and six months after Mohamed Morsi was elected president, democracy is still a work in progress in Egypt. Moment’s Daphna Berman talks with Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. What is the origin...
Houda Nonoo, the ambassador to the United States from Sunni-ruled Bahrain, is a Jewish woman. She’s a symbol of the tiny island kingdom’s tolerance and multiculturalism at a time when Shiite demonstrators are demanding economic and political reforms....