Many of us would recognize early-1947 Lifta. It was coffee shops for first dates, first neighborhood chess games, first jobs. It was an elementary school for students to meet lifetime friends. It was ...

The argument over Israel’s presence in the territories beyond the Green Line has recently come to focus almost exclusively on security issues, but there is literally no aspect of life in Israel that ...

The number of Iraqis thankful to the United States for freeing them from Saddam Hussein is going down fast. Some are wondering if the price was right; others simply cannot wonder at all. As a result ...

In “Martyr schools: Children being weaned on violence” (Commentary, Dec. 26), Amity Shlaes accuses Palestinians of using textbooks to incite their children to violence. But given the routinely brutal ...

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