Why we should be shocked by Bibi's shock Today's speech was almost all the Israeli PM could've hoped for, yet not enough Fresh off Booker win, novelist honored with discussion of his latest False account of Israel's founding ill-serves two-state track Israeli couple gives thumbs-up name to daughter Syrian regime has own use for 'Nakba Day;' 16 deaths reported  | |  Israel Shamir is a slippery Holocaust-doubter whose anti-Semitic, anti-Israel views are—in the age of WikiLeaks—finding a new audience. Part 1 of 2. BY WILL YAKOWICZ Outside my window in Moscow everything is frozen, the thick ice-coated ground, the wind whining through alleys between the gray apartment buildings that stick out from 5-foot bases of hard snow, the orange dump trucks full of snow chugging along the street. Seven floors down, men in blue and orange overalls and black snowcaps are smashing the 3-inch-thick layers of ice coating the sidewalks with wooden-handled-and-metal-ended ice picks. Then there's me, waiting in my thermals for the supposed Russian representative of WikiLeaks, a man who says his name is Israel Shamir, but who is also known as Jöran Jermas, and Adam Ermash, and who spends his time between Sweden, Israel, and Russia. More  | A new book tells the story of a middle-class Jewish girl from Westchester who changed her name, moved to Pakistan, and became a leading voice of radical Islamism More |  | Scholar Adin Steinsaltz discusses his recently completed edition of the Talmud, why the Internet is better than TV, and the prospect of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Elvis playing cards together More BY SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO |  | A new book shows how Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan prompted the American establishment to look beyond longstanding divisions and see Catholics, Protestants, and Jews as kin More |  | In a new biography, Mark Kurlansky explores the life of baseball great—and Jewish hero—Hank Greenberg More | |
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