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Mikeitz: Joseph’s Torture

How to make sense of Joseph? This week we learn of his nearly pathological efforts to ensnare, baffle, accuse, imprison, and shame his brothers—the same brothers who, decades earlier, sold him into slavery. Now he is Grand Vizier of Egypt, and he gets a chance to show them who's boss.An Alternative to the Suez Canal?

Israel is signing an agreement with China to build a railroad from Eilat to Tel Aviv. It will develop the Negev—and may make the Canal loom a little less large.The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

There are over 16,000 books on the Holocaust. "If I had to limit my own library to ten out of those sixteen thousand," says a reviewer, "this would be one of them."What Makes a Jew a Terrorist?

An IDF spokesman says he wouldn't fire on Jewish rock-throwers. Ehud Barak calls them terrorists. Israel faces the tension between universalistic principles of justice and its highly particular circumstances. Confessions of a Pinkwasher

The New York Times says Israel uses its gay-friendliness as propaganda.  A member of the "independent gay Israel lobby" says the Times gives the government too much credit.     What If the Syrians Had Still Been Here?

Many dismiss the intifada that expelled Syrian troops from Lebanon in 2005.  But Assad would be doing better at crushing the Syrian opposition today had he not lost Lebanon then.    Europe’s Jews Need This Union

The European Union was meant to stifle German hyper-nationalism, but today it has Germany marking all of Europe's fiscal homework. Britain's Jews are nervous.A Jewish Woman Calls for Change

The scholarly work of the late Paula Hyman, who was once dean at the Jewish Theological Seminary, was informed by "sometimes conflicting bonds: to Judaism and to feminism."