Opinion | Why Democracy in Egypt Still Matters
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...
Opinion | Israel’s Unresolved Democracy Problem
By Marshall Breger
How can the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state if Israelis don’t know what that means?
In 1958, David Ben-Gurion wrote to 47 leading Jewish...
Opinion // Will Israel and the U.S. Break Up over Iran?
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...
Natural Gas: Israel’s Game Changer
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 policy concerns.
David Marash: A Jew in Al Jazeera’s House
In the Studio with Dave Marash
Dave Marash is on the air, seated at the news anchor desk in a television studio on K Street in...
All Is Heaven with Avigdor Lieberman
The young waitress in the Tel Aviv hotel lobby can’t hide her excitement. The most controversial politician in Israel is here, ever impatient and attired...
Lebanon vs. Israel: A Delicious Culinary War
The Lebanese counterattack on Israel was carefully planned, precisely organized and ruthlessly executed by an army of 300. The mission: Unseat Israel as the hummus...
The Film that Launched a Thousand Court Cases
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...
Shabbat’s Gray Area
by Rebecca Borison
Israeli President Shimon Peres recently announced that he has cancelled his trip to London for the Olympics’ opening ceremony. Why? When he discovered...
Election News Roundup
By Monika Wysocki
Here's a look at a few religion and politics highlights from this week...
The newest front-runner in the wildly unpredictable GOP primary, former Senator...
From the Editor
Nearly three years ago, I met a 90-year-old woman from Cleveland named Eva Rosenberg who told me her story—and that of her late husband Milton...