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Safire, N.Y. Times columnist, dies at 79

William Safire receives the Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on Dec. 15, 2006. (Shealah Craighead. / White House photo)

William Safire, the Nixon speechwriter-turned-New York Times political columnist, died at 79. He loved Israel and Ariel Sharon, had a memorable makeup column about the ADL's Abe Foxman, and seemed to take special pleasure in uncovering the Jewish origins of words. Read more »

By adapting, kibbutz movement finds success

A century after the first kibbutz was founded along the shores of the Kinneret, the kibbutz movement is finding success by shifting from its more ideological, socialist and agricultural roots to industry and, in a growing number of cases, varying degrees of privatization. Read more » Editors' Picks Blaming the Jews Is the failure of Egypt's culture minister to get elected head of UNESCO a sign of a Jewish conspiracy or that Egypt has become a cultural wasteland under his tenure? Feel-good sanctions Sanctions against Iran won't change anything, writes New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, who argues that the Iran-U.S. relationship should be modeled on the French-British one. Radio free Mexico The Wandering Jew visits the only Jewish radio program in Mexico, El Aleph, which provides an alternative window onto Mexican Jewish life. Israel's man in Washington For Michael Oren, the hardest thing about becoming Israel's ambassador to the United States was giving up his American citizenship Breaking News A British attorney filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Palestinian families against Ehud Barak on suspicion of committing war crimes. A "culture of impunity" has existed for too long in the Middle East, Richard Goldstone told the United Nations Human Rights Council. Palestinians rioted in eastern Jerusalem over Yom Kippur. Iran reportedly test-fired medium-range missiles that could strike Israel, parts of Europe and American bases in the Persian Gulf region. Kiev's mayor shot down a plan to build a hotel at the site of the Babi Yar massacre memorial. More than four years after the evacuation of the Jewish residents of Gaza, their rehabilitation is not finished, a panel reported. Israeli leaders congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her re-election but her likely foreign minister was causing reservations. Israeli airstrikes hit a rocket launcher in Gaza that was aimed and ready to be fired at Israel. Ukrainian Jews held two separate ceremonies in Kiev to remember the Jewish victims of the Babi Yar massacre. A majority of German politicians responding to a survey agreed that the president of Iran should face the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The Anti-Defamation League is asking the Spanish government to reverse its decision to disqualify Israeli researchers from an international competition in Madrid. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he did not agree with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assertion that the Holocaust never occurred. Vandals desecrated Jewish gravestones in a Russian cemetery for the third time this year. A new book relates the recollections of former prisoners of Ukraine's Balta ghetto. An Israeli movie co-directed by a Palestinian and an Israeli won Israel's Ophir Award as Best Picture.