J.B. Spins

It was a time of colonialism the “anti-colonialists” seem bizarrely nostalgic for. The indigenous Jewish people were organizing for the inde...

Today marks Paul Newman’s centennial (1/26/1925-9/26/2008), but aside from tonight’s TCM programming, the occasion seems strangely under-her...

Ever since it was founded, Israel’s neighbors have tried to wipe it off the face of the earth, but the Israeli people have always successful...

In many ways, the Yom Kippur War was a lot like the Tet Offensive. It was a surprise attack over a holiday that caught Israel by surprise. T...

After his death, the Palestinian Authority named a street after Hamas’s mastermind of suicide bombings, Yahya Ayyash. That is the kind of pa...

As Prime Minister, Menachem Begin provided the Israeli equivalent of Nixon going to China. Even before that he was crucial to the establishm...

Baseball is America’s pastime—especially here in New York. Israel is one of America’s closest allies—and an island of liberal democracy ...

An army sweeps through the Old City of Jerusalem. Thousands of residents were displaced even though their ancestors had lived in the Quar...

It was undoubtedly unsettling when Hamas started launching rockets aimed at Israel next to the Associated Press’s Gaza headquarters, but ...

Israel is the only state in the Middle East that grants freedom of religion, equal rights under law to women and gays and lesbians, and m...

Twice they answered the call to protect democracy, prevailing against the odds each time. In 1948, a number of former American WWII milit...

Unlike most tourists traveling to Israel, security issues are the least of their worries. This group of eighty and ninety-some year-old J...

It is not sufficient to merely declare yourself a would-be state.  Any governing authority must establish the rule of law.  This was ne...

The Middle East is like the Land of Oz.  We are told to ignore the man behind the curtain with the explosives strapped to his body.  H...

Here’s a wild premise: the Arab countries of the Middle East have united to annihilate Israel. Shocking, right? Believe it or not, Russia su...

In a rare display of organizational competency, the Palestinian Authority has consistently submitted films for the Best Foreign Language Awa...

According to novelist and Israeli Defense Force veteran Alan Kaufman , IDF soldiers are sometimes referred to as “matches,” in an allusion t...

Nearly everyone has heard of them, but what is actually recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls is not widely understood. Given the kind of wild re...

In the past, there has been the occasional bloodshed in blues jukes, sometimes even becoming the stuff of legend. These days, one would hard...

“If God is not here, he is nowhere,” says a character in O Jerusalem , while looking over the city which holds the holiest sites of the worl...