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Among the Insurgents

Smuggled into Syria, a reporter finds that the Free Syrian Army lacks leadership but is fiercely united against Bashar al-Assad and Iran.Pareve or Starve

While his predecessors praised vegetarianism as an ideal but not as a practice, Joseph B. Soloveitchik was fully in favor of Jews abstaining from meat.So You Want to Be Jerusalem Bureau Chief

How—and how not—to tackle the most delicate assignment in journalism.Elite Philanthropy in Israel

Two scholars see a distinctive pattern emerging among elite Israeli philanthropists. For starters, they're not particularly religious.Jewish Literacy and Jewish Imagination

If they wish to make an impact, progressive Jewish activists and thinkers must learn to speak the language of Judaism.Hitler Slept Here

For six months, an American writer traveled Germany, interviewing locals and exploring the legacy of Nazism. What did he find? A still-extant obsession with Jews.Frankly, My Dear

The Frankist movement led many Jews to convert to Catholicism and join the lower nobility in Poland. But this was no ordinary assimilation, as Jewish theology came to infuse the whole gentry.Digging Tiberias

Long beloved of archeologists but overshadowed by more famous sites, the ancient metropolis of Tiberias is finally emerging from underneath soil, rubble, and the remnants of an old garbage dump.Mourning, Melancholia, and Maimonides

Perhaps because a number of medieval Jewish philosophers were also mathematicians and astronomers, their writings on suffering offer commonsensical guidance still useful today.