Was Hamas involved? And what happens to Syria next? While Israel sits in the catbird seat At the forefront of Ukrainian circumcision needs Journalist was for the ex-governor before she was against her The women of the film, out of the corner, a generation later Electoral college math makes Jewish vote there mighty valuable  | |  The composer Richard Wagner was an anti-Semite, a German nationalist, and a genius. Performance of his music—masterworks like the "Ring" cycle and “Tristan und Isolde”—is effectively banned in Israel. Should it be? Richard Wagner, the most repugnant of musical nationalists, has become an unlikely poster child for culturally progressive Israelis. The recurring controversy over the public performance of work by the Nazi Party's favorite composer erupted again in late July when the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, led by the Austrian conductor Roberto Paternostro, performed a much-publicized Wagner program at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, Wagner's self-erected shrine and a pillar of the Nazi movement well before Hitler took power. (Paternostro received a standing ovation from the largely German audience, which understandably liked the idea of Jews playing Wagner.) Morbid ethnocentrism with overtones of nationalist extremism is acceptable to the Israeli left, it seems, as long as it isn't Jewish. More  | The Tel Aviv tent protesters say they speak for a nation demanding social justice. In truth, they're entitled yuppies who've finally found something worth fighting for: themselves. More |  | Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn are all a certain type: the Jewish Big, narcissistic, entitled, and unapologetic. And society loves to see a Jewish Big fall. More BY Peter Savodnik |  | A proposed boycott of Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, a 38-year-old grocery where political passions run high, is raising worries among its sizable Orthodox Jewish membership More | |
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