
The New Israel Lobby: Can J Street — and the Obama administration — change Washington’s Middle East policy? Family Feud: Yossi Klein Halevi on six ways that Obama can regain Israeli trust. Playing the Jesus Card: Why is Netanyahu courting Christian fundamentalists? An interview with Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on why he now considers anti-Semitism a serious threat. A review of The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite. A review of How Jewish is Jewish History? by Moshe Rosman. A review of Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley. Did postwar Jews really ignore the Holocaust for several decades? Jim Sleeper reviews Why Are Jews Liberals? by Norman Podhoretz (and a symposium at Commentary; and more and more and more and more). From Lacan.com, Alain Badiou on the word “Jew” and the sycophant and on the uses of the word “Jew”. Who are you calling a self-hating Jew? Leon Wieseltier investigates. Is the Jewish mind instinctively drawn to commentary and criticism rather than the creation of original works? How Roger Cohen became the most important Jewish journalist in America. Bad for the Jews: Madoff, Dwek, and getting over worrying so much about avoiding a shandeh for the goyim. The first chapter from Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala Fader. Jewish is coolish at last: People can finally emerge from behind their nebbishy personas to assume their proper place in the coolness pantheon.