Jerusalem
One Friday evening last November, Mahmoud Abbas made a rare appearance on the popular Israeli TV station, Channel 2. In his boxy suit and tie, the Palestinian president looked every bit his 77 years, his olive skin tinged with gray, his voice soft and whispery. He shifted in his seat with every answer. READ MORE >>
Netanyahu's New Headache: Avigdor Lieberman Is Dragging Him Down
Anti-Semitism in Western Music
The Music Libel Against the JewsBy Ruth HaCohen (Yale University Press, 507 pp., $55) READ MORE >>
Dear Syria, Save Damascus' Old City
Understanding Mohamed Morsi
Yehuda Amichai: New Translations by Robert Alter
Spy Many years ago I was sent to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty. I stayed there and I did not return to those who sent me, so that I would not have to tell them about that land and would not have to lie. I Waited for My Girl and Her Steps Were Not There I waited for my girl and her steps were not there. But I heard a shot—soldiers training for war. Soldiers are always training for some war. READ MORE >>
Mobile Murders, Jerusalem Life, and the New GOP: Today’s TNR Reader
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! Mobile killers: A strange, modern African murder mystery in the lawless dystopia of eastern Congo. GQ | 36 min (8,970 words) READ MORE >>
War, and Israel’s Quixotic Search For Normalcy
How Christianity Spread: the 1% and the 99% in Ancient Rome
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 ADBy Peter Brown (Princeton University Press, 759 pp., $39.95) READ MORE >>
