A question everybody and nobody wants to answer Plus Hezbollah gets feistier, Weiner's district, and more in the news 'Far to Go' tells of Czech Jews in the 1930s Why this corner of the Shoah is often overlooked  | |  Recently discovered gas and oil fields could make Israel one of the world's largest energy producers. That threatens Iran's power, which is why its agents in Lebanon are manufacturing a border dispute. Now that Israel has discovered what appear to be huge gas and oil fields off its Mediterranean coast, Hezbollah general secretary Hassan Nasrallah and Beirut's Hezbollah-allied ministers are labeling the Jewish state's internationally recognized maritime borders as an "aggression" against Lebanon—even though it seems that the Arab country may have plenty of gas and oil off its coast, too. Lebanon's real problem is that few investors want to take a chance spending billions of dollars exploring for energy in a country run by a terrorist organization. As a result, Hezbollah, cut off from normal sources of global capital, wants to do its best to keep investors away from Israel, too—by threatening war. And American policymakers are concerned that if Hezbollah's newly invented sea-border dispute between Lebanon and Israel isn't solved, the oil and gas fields will turn into an underwater Shebaa Farms—the piece of real estate that has served as Hezbollah's casus belli since Israel's 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon. More  | French Jews, confronting anti-Semitism in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, created the figure of the intellectual. And now, arguing about Israel and Islam, they're killing it. More BY Robert Zaretsky |  | From chanting at the Western Wall to saying Kaddish, several organizations offer to pray on your behalf, for a fee they claim to donate to charity. Is a farmed-out prayer as effective as a personal one? More BY Tamar Fox | |
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