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Blessed are the Bootleggers

While rabbis opposed Prohibition in the name of religious freedom, and many Jews embraced the black market, one Izzy Einstein became the most successful enforcer of dry laws in the country.Allies in Azerbaijan

Sharing intelligence and trading defense hardware for oil, Israel has quietly built a strategic alliance with Azerbaijan, and thus joined Europe, Russia, Turkey, and Iran in the competition for the Caucasus.The Lost Tribe of New Mexico

Straddling the border between Colorado and New Mexico, San Luis Valley is home to Hispano communities, where research shows that almost everyone is related by blood. Jewish blood.On the Hatred of Haredim

Contrary to media hype, Israel is not becoming an ultra-Orthodox theocracy. Rather, the recent violence is a reaction to increasing integration, and a symptom of the Haredi leadership losing its grip.Why Not Covet?

Reasons for the tenth commandment (found in this week's Torah portion): practical, psychological, moral, spiritual. Land of Milk and Honey

A 3,000-year-old apiary sheds light on the economy of the biblical period.Man is the Tree of the Field

Contemplating Deuteronomy 20:19, a contemporary Israeli poet seeks a grim comfort in the arboreal bond.The Politics of Tree Planting

Aiming to transform Israel's aridity, earlier functionaries imported trees unsuited to the Middle-Eastern landscape, putting pressure on a scarce environmental resource: water.Oak Tree

"I will keep standing," sings the Israeli jazz bassist (Video; performance begins at 1:30.)