The subject of Winston Churchill and the Jews is not a trivial or peripheral subject, but it is difficult to treat this delicate matter in isolation, as the virtues and defects of these two books demonstrate.

On Monday, President Obama will sit down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. With a showdown looming over Iran, their summit will not only be the most important meeting for either leader but it may also be the most consequential meeting for the entire Middle East since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s 1993 handshake with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.

The life expectancy of Iran's nuclear physicists is falling rapidly and is almost as low as civil-rights activists, journalists, and public intellectuals.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...

There has been an exaggeration on Israel being the source of problems in the Middle East.

Because the archives of many Arab countries are sealed or highly restricted, writings by Arab officials are often of value--but notMaan Abu Nowar'sstudy of Jordan's early development.

Over the past two decades, a controversial movement of Israeli academics, dubbing themselves "post-Zionists", has emerged that challenges the foundations of Israel’s right to exist. Post-Zionists argue that Israel was created with original sin and that its leadership engaged in a premeditated campaign to expel Palestinian Arabs in 1948....

Regardless if it is Khamenei or the IRGC who is responsible for the terror plot, the Islamic Republic should be held responsible and should also pay a price for its adventurist policies. Otherwise a bolder and more assertive leadership in Tehran will test Washington’s redlines.