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Will Israel Strike Iran?

Video debate on the likelihood of an attack, media reporting on the issue, and the international implications all around.To Be a Montefiore

Alan Montefiore has deployed all of the heavy machinery of analytic philosophy to better understand his illustrious family's view that he ought to be a good Jewish boy. When Einstein Met Tagore

It was staged to be a media sensation when "the thinker with the head of a poet" met "the poet with the head of a thinker." But on philosophical matters, the two titans stood poles apart.The Judeo-Christian Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

In this perilous economic climate, we should remember the lesson of the world's first economist, the biblical Joseph: Years of plenty tend to be followed by years of hardship.Dennis Ross’ Legacy

While the peace process seems as moribund as when the U.S. Mideast envoy last left it in 2000, Iran's isolation might be counted as Ross' success. Tropical Storm

Decades before his obscenity trials would prove him right, Henry Miller wrote in his ambivalently anti-Semitic Tropic of Cancer that "the first people to turn to when you're down and out are the Jews." (Includes obscene language.)In the Red Army

Half a million Jews fought for the Soviet Union during its bloody encounter with Nazi Germany; many felt they had "an extra score to settle with Hitler" after finding out about the Holocaust.Something Rotten?

A visitor to Denmark describes the local Jewish community's struggles over mixed seating, kosher butter, and carrying umbrellas on Shabbat. The year? 1909.Release Marwan Barghouti

Israel isn't the only government afraid of releasing Palestinian terrorists. There's one whom Mahmoud Abbas would be happy to keep behind bars.