TEN WAYS TO INVEST IN ISRAEL
Today there are myriad ways to support Israel. Here are ten ways to get started.
Netanyahu’s DC Schedule Includes White House, Think Tanks
President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday in the context of a new reality: that a two-state solution will not be negotiated on his watch.
Opinion // Agreeing to Disagree
There is no reason for the Jewish community to be monolithic in our opinions.
Putin’s Jews
Mina Yuditskaya Berliner, a retired teacher of German, could be forgiven for feeling surprised when one of her former students invited her for tea after almost half a century. Berliner, now 94, hadn’t seen him since she made aliyah to Israel from the USSR in 1973. But in 2005, the former student came to Israel to visit—an official visit, no less, the first ever made by a Soviet or Russian leader.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s public intellectual no.1 has become its number-one defender of Jews—and democratic intervention around the world.
Opinion // Obama’s Distorted Views on Israel
by Peter Berkowitz The president’s quest for even-handedness is misguided and dangerous. peaking at Harvard University in October, Secretary of
Historian Jeffrey Herf on Interpreting Iran Through Germany
by Emily Shwake Jeffrey Herf is a professor of modern European intellectual history at the University of Maryland. He has
Book Review // Killing a King
The assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 20 years ago produced instant analysis of unusual accuracy. Typically, it takes decades for the air to clear enough for history to make a sound judgment, especially in the Middle East. But when Rabin was shot in the back in November 1995, the Israelis of various camps who either mourned or celebrated what they thought the murder meant for their country turned out to be exactly right.
Ilan Berman’s Iran
by Emily Shwake The first thing Ilan Berman told the crowd was: “You do not want to read this book.”
Q&A: Explaining Israel’s Wave of Violence
Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, on how the violence began and what can be done to quell it.
Amid Refugee Crisis, Jewish Groups Step Up
by Laura Davis and Emily Shwake Since the original outbreak of fighting in March of 2011, nearly 4 million Syrians
Q&A: Israel and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
In this Q&A, Moshe Maoz, professor emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem —