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Reading the Netanyahu Tea Leaves

Does the collapse of recent Israeli-Palestinian exploratory talks mask an increased flexibility in the Prime Minister's position on Israeli control of the Jordan Valley? The Atlantic is hopeful.Barter in Bartaa

Straddling the Green Line, the village of Bartaa has become a booming market town. Or, rather, the Palestinian half has.History without Witnesses

As the Holocaust disappears from living memory, what matters is not who is speaking but who is listening.Cancelling Conversion

While many Orthodox rabbis have become too willing to annul conversions, even the non-Orthodox world recognizes that there are some circumstances in which a conversion must be overturned. Ardor, or Architecture

The holiness of Jerusalem in the Muslim tradition owes less to the Koran than it does to the opportunistic building program of Jerusalem's eight-century Umayyad rulers.Who’s Afraid of a Nuclear Iran?

Israel is—and since 1973, Israel has had reason to think that on the brink of its annihilation, Europe wouldn't act to save it. (Video)X-Rated Dispute in Knesset

The author feels blessed "to live in a country in which an Arab Member of Parliament can wittily abuse a Jewish colleague in a Hebrew that causes my Israeli-born daughter to convulse with hysterics."    Flame War

A science fiction writer would have taken the trouble to devise a plausible explanation for the premise of his novel. Not Ben Marcus, the well-known apostle of "experimental" writing, though.B’shallah: Hands Up!

The stories in this week's reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit. A modern editor, looking for a groovy chapter title, might have called the collection, "Ancient Israel's Bipolar Moment." Or, even more flippantly, "Hands Up!"