Haaretz has just published a fascinating look into the dysfunctional way in which the Israeli Knesset supervises...
Mideast Peace
What’s so threatening about peace, love and understanding (to paraphrase Elvis Costello)? In one of those rare...
Back in my days of Hebrew school, Hebrew High School and Camp Ramah I remember the book...
Natan Sharansky has become the flavor of the month within neo-con circles in Washington, DC (see Bush’s...
I wrestle constantly with how to respond to the various haters who post comments here. The majority...
This is the third and perhaps final post about the musical heritages of those lands worst hit...
Muthuswami Dikshitar, Thyagaraja and Syama Sastri—the trinity of Carnatic music (credit: Artindia.net) When the tsunami hit, I...
Armandino Batali, proprietor of Salumi (credit: Barry Wong/ Seattle Times) I’m delighted that Greg Atkinson, the Seattle...
A truly mind-boggling thing has just happened within Palestinian society. Hamas has unequivocally accepted that Israel has...
If I were Condi Rice right about now, I’d start wondering who was making U.S. foreign policy–her...
Well, not really–it actually lasted almost four days from just after Abu Mazen won the Palestinian presidential...
Leon Wieseltier has been the New Republic’s literary editor for over two decades. Frankly, I’ve always felt...
