Dan Shechtman remembers the day he was kicked out of a research group because of the theory that last week won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry."Read this book. What you say is impossible," the group leader at the National Bureau of Standards in Maryland,...

Israel's complexity, and the nature of the world's response to it, is in danger of defeating us as a community.How can we say when a fiery piece of theater is "anti-Semitic," and when it is simply "courageous and challenging"? How do we know when a documentary...

TEL AVIV - Amid global events of the past few years that are changing the world - the rising power of the BRICs economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the global economic crisis, the rise of social networks and, most recently, the popular uprisings...