Maurice Roumani has created a masterful account of the last decades of the vanished community of Libyan Jews.

How the authorities handled Israel"s detractors on May Day may explain why Italian Jews supported the Center-Right in the recent elections.

Against this backdrop--Pakistan careening from one crisis to the next and the U.S.-Pakistan relationship at its lowest point in years--come two contrasting books from experts on the country.

Most Jews today feel a deep and abiding interest in the security of Israel, andthat interest is driving their politics, sometimes to very unusual places.

The corruption of the human rights ideal has to be fought not only at the United Nations, but inside the domestic institutions of Western nations--and within our own minds and consciences.

Experience gained from communist Poland, terror-sponsoring Libya, and apartheid-ruled South Africa offer valuable lessons for fostering greater freedom in Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

Those whowarned that if we concentrated solely on Iraq, we would find ourselves under attack from the remaining terror masters in Damascus, Tehran, and Riyadh were right.

The process of peaceful change in the Middle East is only beginning.