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Plant a Tree in Israel?

Perhaps not; in the wake of recent forest fires there is general agreement that the focus should be on sustainable management and a decades-long process of natural regeneration.    The Roots of Torah

Tu Bishvat falls in the midst of winter—not a time when one might expect a holiday that celebrates the glory of nature, but perhaps the right time to remind us of its ultimate potential.Extending an Olive Branch

Wary of Turkey's increasing radicalism, Israel and Greek Cyprus are forging a new military alliance to protect their offshore gas fields, and to defend against the growing threat of militant Islam.Building Bridges

Moshe Safdie, the world-renowned Israeli architect, is shutting down the office he opened in Jerusalem in 1970. The future, it seems, is in China.Nazi Family Values

The photo albums of Hitler's associates—the extended Nazi family, as it were—were of little or no interest to researchers immediately after World War II. But historians are taking a second look.Whitewashing Black-Jewish History

Both African-Americans and Jews journeyed from slavery to redemption, ultimately united as allies in the civil rights era. It makes for an appropriate and inspiring school lesson. But is it good history?Mincing Words

The Yiddish expression makhn ash un blote—"to make ashes and mud" or "to make mincemeat" of someone—exemplifies the influence of biblical idiom on Yiddish phraseology. Fearful Asymmetry

One woman is a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist. The other is a renegade crusader for women's rights. An American journalist explicitly seeks to draw a parallel between the two.Creaming the Competition

Ruling Haagen Dazs ice cream to be non-kosher, the Israeli chief rabbinate misconstrues Moshe Feinstein's position and once again demonstrates its contempt for Diaspora Judaism.