Lessons from the Obama-Netanyahu Relationship
The almost American.
August 24, 2016
A Shift in Mahmoud Abbas’s Strategy?
No more threats.
Last summer, the Palestinian Authority president made serial threats to resign, to dismantle the PA, to end security cooperation with the IDF, to sue Israel in the International Criminal Court, and to tear up the Oslo Accords. He has since backed down from all of them and even seems to be trying to end the “knife intifada,” which his own party played a large role in instigating. Yoni Ben Menachem examines his motivations:
August 24, 2016
A Shift in Mahmoud Abbas’s Strategy?
No more threats.
Can Islam Be Reconciled with Liberal Democracy?
Islamic Exceptionalism.
The Rabbi, the Rebbetzin, and the Yiddish Poet
Peretz Markish and the Schneersons.
In a First, an Ancient Village Synagogue Is Found in the Galilee
Complete with a “Sephardi” seating plan.