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George Eliot one of the classic Victorian authors, in her final masterpiece, Daniel Deronda tells a beautiful tale, love, duty and identity. This novel describes within it the budding Zionist movement, and reflected the strong sympathies of a large sector of British society for the restoration of the Jews. Eliot having pretty much renounced her Christian faith, still accepted the moral dictates of the Judeo-Christian faith which infused the unique moral dillema's of her age. Eliot's attitude to Zionism is significant, because it shows that British support for Zionism and restoration..

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, filmmaker, novelist, and essayist offers a controversial look at anti-Semitism in modern life, examining the potentially destructive ways in which Jews themselves look for meaning and truth anywhere--in politics, other religions, and in mindless entertainment--but knee jerk never in Judaism itself. Mamet goes on to analyze what happens when Jews abandon loyalty to their religion and tradition in order, as he sees it, to find acceptance in Israel-bashing liberal society. Unlike more familiar defenses of Israel that are full of facts, Mamet locks onto what..

Sarah Honig takes a close look at the historical case of Jordan and it being the actual Palestinian State. In the article she discusses the Heshimite Kingdom and the clear majority of Palestinians subjects, in a kingdom that was first a powerful Iraqi clan that was given Trans-Jordan as a second prize by the British.

Conrad's classic and maybe most important stories deal at bottom with a single element: the politics of living. The stories are at once parable, fable, and chronicle and are filled with amusement as much as wisdom.

The JNI sponsored a gathering in which Tel-Avivian's had the opportunity to listen to the Moledet Party's "Right Road to Peace."

A former U.S. federal judge reviews Aharon Barak's latest book "The Judge in a Democracy." Bork critiques Barak's judicial philosophy as a real obstacle to representative governance.

Ruth Wisse puts the Israel-Arab conflict into a fact-based geographic and political context in The Harvard Crimson.

I walked home one night after a difficult evening along Hayarkon river as it glowed in the lamplight. I felt utterly alone and atomized as I came upon the river—feeling that I should be witnessing the scene of beauty with someone else, to comment on it, to discuss it, to enjoy it. But then something came over me. My eyes nearly filled with tears. My heart swelled as I looked around at the land, at the lamp posts, at the sky, at the river itself and the loneliness evaporated and I knew myself to be a complete part of a complete and nearly perfect being. And I realized that this being was Israel—not..