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  • Israel's Arab problem hits home

    Tensions are rising between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens -- and could affect the chances for peace, or wider war, in the Middle East.
    By Gregory Levey January 29, 2007

  • The other Israel lobby

    A new alliance, including financier George Soros and former Bill Clinton advisor Jeremy Ben-Ami, aims to take on the powerful lobbyist group AIPAC -- and reshape U.S. policy.
    By Gregory Levey December 19, 2006

  • "The Lost"

    Daniel Mendelsohn remembers the strange effect he had as a boy on his kin in this excerpt.
    By Daniel Mendelsohn December 14, 2006

  • Abortion rights, religious voices

    More advocates for reproductive freedom are finding God on their side, too.
    By Lynn Harris August 1, 2006

  • "Invisible in Hollywood: Jewish women"

    A women's studies prof can't recall the last time she saw a richly textured Jewish female character onscreen.
    By Lynn Harris January 18, 2006

  • The mothers of all Jewish mothers

    The ancestry of 40 percent of Ashkenazi Jews is traced to four women.
    By Lynn Harris January 18, 2006

  • What's in a hat?

    To most people, Jack Abramoff's stylish brim says "Godfather." But if you're an observant Jew, it tells a much different story.
    By Stephen Hirsch January 6, 2006

  • Jews and the Christian right: Is the honeymoon over?

    Worried by increasingly strident evangelical rhetoric, Jewish leaders have finally dared to criticize conservative Christians. Will an alliance held together only by a shared support for Israel survive?
    By Michelle Goldberg November 29, 2005

  • Eating latkes in Toronto

    David Bezmozgis' extraordinary stories about life as an Eastern European immigrant in Canada deserve the praise lavished on them this summer. And I ought to know.
    By Jana Prikryl September 1, 2004

  • Can Israel be saved?

    Richard Ben Cramer talks about "How Israel Lost," his exploration of how the occupation of Palestinian land has corrupted the soul of the Jewish state he loves.
    By Gary Kamiya July 19, 2004

  • The Arabian Panther

    Dyab Abou Jahjah's Arab European League calls for sharia law, celebrates 9/11 and warned Belgian Jews to break with Israel or else. Is he defending Muslims' civil rights -- or inciting hatred?
    By Abigail R. Esman June 14, 2004

  • Abu Moses

    He was a Palestinian commando, and a clown and a cutup -- until one day he made a shattering discovery.
    By D.N. Rosina June 1, 2004

  • Anti-Semitic -- or anti-Sharon?

    When Western leaders met in Berlin this week to confront an ugly upsurge in European anti-Semitism, they pointed fingers not just at neo-Nazis and militant Muslims -- but also at the European left.
    By Alix Christie April 30, 2004

  • A passion for hatred

    Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" is a blood libel against Jews, and every prominent Christian minister and priest ought to denounce it.
    By Robert Scheer March 3, 2004

  • Letters

    Israeli whitewash or Arab propaganda? Readers weigh in on Christopher Farah's interview with Israeli historian Benny Morris and the wounds of 1948.
    January 29, 2004

  • The "Jewsploitation" craze

    Jonathan Kesselman's "The Hebrew Hammer" is the manifesto for a hip, hype-driven "new Jewishness." But here's a news flash: American Jews aren't actually black, and anti-Semitic stereotypes aren't automatically funny.
    By Baz Dreisinger December 23, 2003

  • When an Arab is also a Jew

    As the powerful new documentary "Forget Baghdad" makes clear, life is complicated for Israeli Jews haunted by their memories of a secular, multicultural Iraq.
    By Christopher Farah December 15, 2003

  • Cracks in the base

    As Lieberman smacks Dean on Israel and Sharpton says Democrats neglect blacks, the party could wind up squabbling over how to maintain its dominance with Jews and African-Americans.
    By Alexander Bolton September 10, 2003

  • Divided over "The Passion"

    The furor over Mel Gibson's film is threatening the fledgling pro-Israel alliance between evangelical Christians and key Jewish groups.
    By Eric Boehlert August 21, 2003

  • "Naked in the Promised Land" by Lillian Faderman

    A lesbian scholar remembers her youth as a pinup model, stripper and wide-eyed adventurer among the denizens of the seamy Sunset Strip.
    By Laura Miller February 26, 2003

  • Jews and the GOP

    The Christian right's passionate embrace of Israel has raised Republican hopes that Jewish voters will abandon the Democrats.
    By Michelle Goldberg May 14, 2002

  • The myth of the media's anti-Israel bias

    The truths on both sides of the Middle East conflict are unfathomably ugly, and the media has done a good job in reporting it.
    By Robert Scheer April 24, 2002

  • The Palestinians' true cause

    The Mideast blood bath is not about land -- it's about religion. The Israelis' great crime? They're Jews.
    By David Horowitz April 3, 2002

  • No business like Shoah business

    New York's controversial "Nazi art" show has exposed deep divisions among Jews over the entrenched "Holocaust industry" and its pieties.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 3, 2002

  • Round up the Jews!

    If it's OK to racially profile Muslims and Arabs now, it should have been fine to single out Jews during the 1950s Communist-spy panic.
    By Ron Unz December 6, 2001
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