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Israel’s Long Weekend

To hear some report it, the latest “cycle of violence,” featuring volleys of hundreds of rockets and airstrikes between Israel and Gaza began this past weekend when Israel killed Zuhair al-Qaissi and several other leaders of the Popular Resistance Committee, a terror group connected to Hamas. In fact, the “weekend” began on June 25, 2006, […]

What We Talk About When We Talk About Passover

In the Jonathan Safran Foer-Nathan Englander ‘New American Haggadah,’ tradition and modern literary sensibilities collide.

U. Cal President Defends Farrakhan Speech But Faults Group That Invited Him

University of California President Mark Yudof defended Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s right to speak at the university’s Berkeley campus. Farrakhan’s speech Saturday was billed as being about black empowerment, but was also peppered with anti-Semitic and hate speech, students told The Daily Californian student newspaper. A petition circulated after the speech by Jewish […]

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Israel’s Long Weekend

What We Talk About When We Talk About Passover

U. Cal President Defends Farrakhan Speech But Faults Group That Invited Him

The Challenge of Offering Moral Rebuke in the Workplace

A Shpiel: Persians and Purim

In Defense Of Vashti

Exclusive: Protocol On Controversial Bris Practice Was Rescinded In 2007

100 Years Of Badges, Values — And Cookies

Hearty Lentil Soup

New Delhi Police Arrest Bombing Suspect

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