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Article 19
Inside the Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, 1914 When Amy Dockser Marcus began reporting from Israel for the Wall Street Journal, in the early 1990s, a lasting peace agreement seemed not only possible, but...
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Article 18
That the State of Israel has an ethnicity problem is the opposite of news: hardly a day goes by without some report on the hostilities between Jews and Arabs. But We Look Like the Enemy, the...
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Article 17
• The Lithuanian government has dramatically reduced a plan to restore property stolen by the Nazis and communists, infuriating Jewish groups. [JTA] • Yesterday, for the first time in a month, a rocket...
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Article 16
“Unlike when we were first there some 50 years before,” writes Huffington Post-er Robert M. Grossman, who bills himself as a “writer and lawyer” in an odd post about a trip to Morocco, “many travelers...
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Article 15
• The world’s largest matzoh ball, displayed and dispersed in New York City yesterday, looked a bit like, well, a breast, which lent a disturbing air to the response of one taster: “I love matzo balls,...
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Article 14
• Mark Siegel, who wrote a New York Post op-ed explaining that he’s against health care reform because he follows “the Oath of Maimonides,” apparently didn’t realize that the 12th century rabbi,...
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Article 13
• Talks began between Western leaders and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Geneva yesterday; the United States is looking to be reassured about Iran’s nuclear program but is prepared with...
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Article 12
The Forward has a story on an Israeli policy, enacted earlier this year, in which visitors with a declared intention to visit the West Bank are given a stamp on their passport that prevents them from...
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Article 11
Blogger Jack Midknight sees a possible silver lining for the ever-troubled Middle East. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, he points out, there’s good news in the fact that, as he says, “Arabs fear...
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Article 10
• When you see a headline that starts with “Jews and Arabs unite,” you can be sure there’s comedy to follow; in this case, their common enemy is the proposed construction of an ultra-Orthodox town in...
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Article 9
As news headline writers struggle daily to come up with different ways to say “No Progress on Peace Talks” and “Iran’s Gonna Do Whatever it Damn Well Pleases,” the Middle East in general is becoming...
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Article 8
When I was 16, my father taught me a popular Egyptian saying, which would spark my desire to travel on my own. “In the country where they don’t know you,” he’d said through his laugh, “hike up your...
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Article 7
One of the characteristic laments of the Arab intelligentsia in both Washington and the Middle East concerns the inability of Arab nations to make their cases to the U.S. public. If only the Arabs...
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Residents of Migron Consider Next Steps in the Wake of Court Decision...
To reach the outpost of Migron, a settlement of some 50 families just north of Jerusalem, visitors drive up a road that the Israeli government paid for. Their cars are inspected by an Israeli soldier...
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Andrew Sullivan and Roger Cohen Are Getting Ze'ev Jabotinsky All Wrong
Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky—the iconoclastic founder of Zionism’s right-wing Revisionist party and the scourge of David Ben-Gurion—died eight years before Israel’s birth, left to history as his peers...
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The Israeli Arab Who Bucked Convention by Sending Three Sons to the IDF
Yousef Juhja’s cell phone number ends, coincidentally, with the digits 1948. It’s the year of his birth and that of the Jewish state—and for most of Juhja’s fellow Israeli Arabs, the year of the Nakba,...
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On the 17th Anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s murder, the Israeli Left Can't...
The announcement last week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that their parties—the center-right Likud and the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu—would merge lists and...
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As the U.S. Sits on the Sidelines, an al-Qaida Affiliate Emerges as One of...
More than 45,000 deaths and 22 months since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, the White House has finally run aground on the incoherence of its Syria policy. Having refused to provide the...
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Let's Take Back Jerusalem's Soccer Team From Its Racist Fans!
Beitar Jerusalem, the iconic Israeli soccer team, gave one of its better performances of the season earlier this week, defeating Maccabi Umm al-Fahm 5-0, but almost none of the thousands in attendance...
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Riding the Rails in Jerusalem: An Award-Winning Podcast by Daniel Estrin
Last week, the Society of Professional Journalists named Tablet contributor Daniel Estrin a Sigma Delta Chi Award honoree for his 2012 Vox Tablet report about a new light-rail system in Jerusalem, a...
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