Amy E. Schwartz: World Museums Rethink Islamic Art
The next generation of exhibits builds bridges in ways you might not expect.
Genia Brin’s Double Parkinson’s Mutation
Eugenia Brin was 48 when she first noticed that her left leg was dragging. It took two years for doctors finally to diagnose her with...
Bella Abzug: The Woman Congress Could Not Intimidate
“Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it,” Phyllis Schlafly told assembled students at The Citadel military academy...
Eetta Prince-Gibson: Israel’s No-Win African Refugee Situation
In late May, protestors rioted against the tens of thousands of African migrant workers and asylum seekers living in south Tel Aviv. They attacked passersby,...
Clifford D. May: Khamenei’s Sacred Word: Destroy Israel
There’s nothing wrong with negotiating with your enemies. There is something wrong if you don’t know that those sitting across the table from you are...
Naomi Ragen: Has Israel Lost Control Over the Iranian Situation?
On the sleepy afternoon of March 21, 2012, alarm sirens went off all over Jerusalem, sending me and my racing heart lunging toward our air...
Marshall Breger: Why Jews Can’t Criticize Sharia Law
Similarities between Judaism and Islam are easy to see. Both are monotheistic religions for whom the Lord is One. Both are religions based on revelation. In both, law is central, and personal and social existence is governed by a divinely ordained legal system. There are also many obvious parallels between Judaism’s legal system, known as halacha, and the Islamic legal order of sharia law.
David Hazony: New Israel Elections are Around the Corner
Elections are in the air—and not just in the United States. In December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for early primaries in his Likud Party, a likely indicator that he may dissolve the Knesset sometime in 2012 and call a general election. The ball has begun to roll.
Gershom Gorenberg: Israel’s Democracy Needs Your Help
One bill in the Knesset is aimed at keeping human rights groups from filing suit before Israel’s Supreme Court. Another would bar mosques from using...
Whither Israel’s Grand Strategies?
Mainstream Sunni Arab countries—traditionally adversaries of Israel—are now its potential allies
in the struggle against Iran and militant Islam.
One of the signal characteristics of Israel’s security...
Women Get the Front Seat
Israel’s High Court agreed that gender separation on Israeli public buses violated the principles of equality,
individual rights and freedom of religion.
In 2004, I embarked on...
Born This Way
By Steven Philp
According to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University College London, people may hold certain political views simply because they were...