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Disengagement

Swift Remedy At 6 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning, a group of us grabbed mountain bikes, helmets and water bottles and set out from Palmer, Massachusetts for Quabbin Reservoir, 10 miles northwest of us. We rode past the local airport, through the town of Belchertown, alongside Doug's Taxidermy and Archery shop and a small farm selling peacocks, and up and down a few steep hills.

Pricey Band-Aid
Phoenix Aflight
The Touch

Sharon's Choices
What does the prime minister really want, to "park" in place or disengage more?

Looking Back and Beyond The beginning of life outside Gush Katif spelled the collapse of three decades of settlement enterprise inside. Matti Friedman chronicles the days before and after the moment of disengagement

SOS from the Galilee
Steeped in a struggle to preserve its character as the only kibbutz that practices Conservative Judaism, Hanaton is appealing to like-minded Jews abroad for reinforcements

The Exile
The dream of returning to Iraq turns into a rude awakening

Boker Tov, Shanghai
Israel and Jewish studies are a hit in Shanghai

A Letter to Olmert

A Dutch Master of Our Own
As recently as 35 years ago, nearly 80 works by Rembrandt were identified as portraying Jewish subjects. Today only one remains a sure thing. How did the artist acquire - and lose - his 'Jewish soul'?

Men of the Century
According to the "Shiksa's Guide," there's nothing like a Jewish man

Drawing a Line
Nearly three dozen Israeli 'thinkers' explain why the state is right - or very wrong - in unilaterally withdrawing from Gaza and part of the West Bank
Hearts in the East
Tamar Yellin turns Jerusalem into a living city

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Hirsh Goodman   What Have We Learned?
Gershom Gorenberg   A Very Long Disengagement
Ehud Ya'ari   The Non-State
Stuart Schoffman   Song of the Sea

Yehudah Mirsky  A Small Healthy Measure of Exile
Anne Roiphe  Cosmopolitans, Seeking World Government