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A Belmont Backstory

In the 1869 Belmont Stakes, named after the Jewish financier August Belmont, the jockey and trainer Jacob Pincus—remembered after his death as "this matchless Jew"—made racing history.Israel and the Arab Uprisings

Efforts to link the Palestinian conflict with Israel to the Arab Spring have led to the most outlandish claims, and those who make such claims are hardly unblemished themselves.In the Shadow of the Alhambra

Against the backdrop of surveys showing 46 percent of Spaniards holding negative attitudes toward Jews, the city of Granada hosts a Jewish religious figure for the first time in over 500 years.Imagine

In a provocative, hugely entertaining, and compulsively readable "philosophical rampage," the historian Ze'ev Maghen turns the tables on arguments that Judaism is parochial, antiquated, and inert.Beneath Black Hats and Shtreimels

With some noteworthy results, American movies and television are beginning to present Hasidim not as caricatures but as actual individuals; still, there's a long way to go. Where is Israel’s Capital?

In Tel Aviv, to judge from the location of the U.S. embassy. In lately re-emphasizing this refusal to acknowledge reality, President Obama has won the praise of the Palestinian Authority.Chagall at Work

A priceless sketchbook containing two decades' worth of the artist's responses to global and personal experience is up for auction at Sotheby.Foreskin Man

The debate over circumcision in San Francisco is devoid of anti-Semitic overtones. To the contrary: the anti-Semitism is explicit and inescapable.But is It Art?

A radical ultra-Orthodox Jerusalemite is scanning his treasures—20,000 street posters assaulting secular Jews and the state of Israel—for uploading to the country's national library.