Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

The Looming Tower Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Lawrence Wright Knopf 480 pages £20/NIS 165 Last month an Islamic seminary in northwest ...

On those mornings when I take a bus from my southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiot to the Post offices on the other side of town, I alwa...

My gut instinct tells me it would be a mistake to launch a large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip. The enemy would like nothing more than to...

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, ends next Monday at sunset with the festival of Id al-Fitr. Muslims worldwide have been marking the “handing...