The Jewish Community of Cracow
Palestinian Statehood, Autonomy, or Confederation: The Impacts on Israeli Security
The Jewish Community of Vienna: Existing Against all Odds
The Israeli – Maghreb Connection: Past Contacts, Future Prospects
After Hebron: Prospects for the Peace Process
The Hebron agreement is now finally in place. During the months that it took to reach that point, some must have been reminded of what the nineteenth century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerstone once said about the Schleswig-Holstein question: there were only three people who understood it – one of whom was dead, one was in an asylum, and he himself had forgotten it.
Is Peace a Zionist Vision or Fantasy?
Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism
When Mustafa Kamal (Ataturk) founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923 (he was its president until his death fifteen years later), he set as his main objective the modernization of the new republic. His preferred means was speedy, intensive secularization and, indeed, every one of his reforms was tied up with disestablishing other Islamic institutions from their hold on Turkey’s politics, economics, society, and cultural life.
