How the Rupert Murdoch scandal could give Britain its first Jewish head of government Plus U.S. speaks softly on Syria, and more in the news And why, contra Hamas, it was no 'war crime' Community rallies around the mourning Kletzkys  | |  Conventional wisdom says Israel must reach a peace deal quickly, before population trends and diplomatic isolation overtake the Jewish state. Demographics and geopolitics tell a different story. "Time isn't on Israel's side" must be the most-repeated phrase in Israeli politics, in the Jewish state as well as in the Diaspora. It's Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni's refrain, as Simon Schama put it recently in the Financial Times. Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, said so in a Jerusalem speech to Jewish legislators from various parliamentary democracies June 29. We've heard the same shibboleth this year from Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, Turkish commentator Ömer Taşpinar, Rabbi Donniel Hartman of the Shalom Hartmann Institute, Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt, and many others. More  | Larry David, the antihero of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, is particular, a prig, and constantly aggrieved. But he's fine with that—which is why, contrary to type, he's not at all neurotic. More |  | Sarah's Key, the new film version of the acclaimed 2007 novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, recounts a Nazi-ordered deportation of French Jews, once as personal trauma and then again as forgotten history More | |
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