Anshel Pfeffer

While he chose to be English and a Communist, the historian's Jewish identity had been imposed on him. Perhaps that's why he was seeking to redefine the terms of his identity of birth, denying its connection with a second country and a competing ideology.

With his usual disregard for political correctness, Schulich talks about why he is giving $100 million to endow a Canadian-Israeli scholarship fund, modeled on the Rhodes scholarship.

Adelson helped him to victory, Obama could doom him to defeat.

After decades of cooperation, why is the Islamic Republic so quick these days to point the finger at the German giant?

It is clear that Marine Le Pen's proposal to ban wearing of skullcaps in public was not much more than an afterthought in what was mainly an attack on Islam.

How can our children continue to live as Jewish citizens of the globalized world?

For better or worse, 5773 will not be the year of the bomb, at least if America does not change its position and there is no sign of that happening no matter who wins the elections.

False reports that an Israeli made the film that sparked the violence across the Middle East raises questions, and emphasizes some uncomfortable facts.

Jews like to enjoy wine in good times, of which there have been few recently. But as wine sales in Israel slump and prices fall, excellent wines are available at good prices to help you bring in the Jewish New Year and, hopefully, better times ahead.

It's beginning to look like the days of the Oslo process, and its subsequent decline. No doubt, we will soon learn about messengers from Francois Hollande, secret emissaries from Moscow and a host of minor world-leaders who are eager for a piece of the action.

Does Netanyahu’s outburst this morning mean that all the reports and assessments we have been making and reading and hearing over the last couple of weeks have to be revised now?

As the Israeli press struggles for survival, it may be the Diaspora that rides in to the rescue as more foreign and foreign-born Jewish tycoons acquire media holdings.

For now, those who fear a fundamentalist future for Israel can at least take comfort that the only rabbi with a say on affairs of state is trying to avert war.

Two key IDF appointments, one in the General Staff and the other in the Air Force, suggest that Netanyahu will not be ordering to strike Iran's nuclear facilities before the U.S. elections.

Haaretz analyst Anshel Pfeffer says that, intent on being re-elected, the U.S. president needs to remind voters that Israel has his back.

One thing is clear about Israel and the U.S.: they are not on the same page when it comes to Iran.

British Jewry is getting animated over its choice of chief rabbi, with an American likely to land the role. Even Springfield's rabbi is drawing attention.

Short of standing in front of the camera and telling Israel's Prime Minister directly not to attack Iran, downsizing the joint U.S.-Israeli military drill next month is the clearest message Obama could have sent Netanyahu.

Antony Lerman, former director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, sits down with Haaretz to discuss the British Jewish community, why he renews his Israeli passport and his new book 'The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist.'

If the current demographic trends continue, Israel will have a joint Haredi-settler majority by 2050.

The Batsheva Dance Company members stopped as the protesters were removed by security, but then continued. The disruption was not a surprise, as pro-Palestinian activists had announced it beforehand.

After the Edinburgh Festival refused to call off the show, pro-Palestinian activists plan to disrupt the opening performance of the Israeli dance group Batsheva, attended by the Israeli culture minister and by Israel's envoy to London.

A new report by the British National Party may recycle Fascist language and conspiracies, but the main item of interest is a new argument in the European far-right: Who’s the enemy, Jews or Muslims?

A Wall Street Journal report highlights the first apparent admission by an IRGC general that his men are indeed operating in Syria. Does this signal a new phase of the Syrian revolution?

It was clear that under Mubarak, Egypt saw Iran as an insufferable rival for hegemony in the Muslim world. Under Morsi, it is much harder to tell.