How Greece and Cyprus Helped Israel Battle Iran
And the global significance of their alliance.
Today’s Editors’ Picks
Friday, August 15
Western Leaders May Condemn Israel, but Their Militaries Are Learning from It
Democracies must replace this dissonance with strategic clarity.
Orthodox Jews and the New York City Election
The emerging Bukharian vote.
Discovering Rabbinic Graves with Muslim Guides
Why haredim poured into Lebanon in March.
Today, Young People See Nazis Everywhere, Unless They’re Looking at Anti-Semites
Lessons of the Sydney Sweeney controversy.
Past Editors’ Picks
Thursday, August 14
Iran’s Hostage Diplomacy
“A business model,” and a successful one.
To Maintain Its Status as a Problem Solver, Qatar Ensures Problems Continue
How an exporter of terror became an indispensable mediator.
If Israel Isn’t Guilty of a Crime, the Law Must Be Changed
International organizations shred their credibility to point the finger at the Jewish state.
Building a New Jewish Community in Sparta, North Carolina
Blue Ridge Mountain Jews.
Moses and David Led the Jewish People in Very Different Ways
Faith versus self-reliance.
Wednesday, August 13
Turning the Shofar into a Symphonic Instrument
Breath in a ram’s horn.
Preserving Eastern Europe’s Vanished Mezuzahs
Recreating artifacts from impressions in doorways.
How Wikipedia Became a Weapon for Anti-Israel Propagandists
A system vulnerable to dangerous manipulation.
Arab States Finally Denounce Palestinian Terror
The Arab League’s watershed moment.
With the Inevitable Breakdown of Hostage Negotiations, Israel Faces a New Gaza Dilemma
Pressures domestic, international, and military.
Tuesday, August 12
How Israel’s Siege of Hamas Collapsed
Feeding the enemy.
When “Journalists” Are Legitimate Military Targets
Anas al-Sharif was a Hamas operative. He was also an information warrior.
The Government Should Stop Funding Charities That Turn Themselves into Platforms for Anti-Israel Propaganda
Teach for Palestine, but not for Israel.
Discovering the Crypto-Jews of Portugal
After five centuries of hiding.
An Inscription from Jewish Rebels Found in the Caves of the Judean Desert
“Abba of Naburya has perished.”
Monday, August 11
Israel Will Combine Military Force with Diplomatic Maneuvering to End the War with Hamas
Making sense of the new Gaza policy.
Major Western Countries Are Recognizing “Palestine.” Why Should Anyone Care?
The legal and diplomatic implications.
Having No Religion Means Different Things to Different People
The varieties of irreligious experience.
Fiction in the Holocaust’s Shadow
Rooms for Vanishing.
A Bosnian Museum Exploits a Medieval Haggadah to Make the Jews Pay for Their Sins
The Jewish story will prevail.
Friday, August 8
Coming to Terms with the Magnitude of Hamas’s Tunnels
A unique challenge that is likely to re-emerge after the war ends.
Columbia’s Most Famous Protester Isn’t Coy about His Anti-Semitism
Mahmoud Khalil’s Jewish boogeymen.
A Quarter-Century of the Democrats’ Drift away from the Jews
The party that nominated Joe Lieberman is disappearing.
Paul Celan’s Letters to His Family
Poetry as jealous deity.
The Winemaking Rabbis of Ancient Judea
Pragmatic experts in cultivating grapes.
Thursday, August 7
Despite War, Military Cooperation between Israel and the UAE Is Flourishing
A win for the Abraham Accords.
Lessons for Israel from the American War on al-Qaeda
The battle of Tel Afar.
Keeping Government Out of Religion
When the government controls who can preach, faith becomes a tool of the state.
A Unique Memoir of 20th-Century Jewish Dispersion
Melting Point.
Three Ancient Shipwrecks Shed Light on an Iron Age Israelite Port
Tel Dor.