Barak and Jalal Talabani shook hands and briefly exchanged pleasantries Tuesday during the Socialist International outside Athens. They were introduced by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who also spoke separately with Barak, a former Israeli prime minister. read more...

Jephthah was a guy who, to use a later metaphor, never spent enough time either in religious school.  Jephthah, rejected and forsaken, ends up a gang lord in no-man’s land. The Israelite elders, however, are in need of a strong fighter. They rehabilitate Jephthah, and induce him to return. read the article...

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