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Kissing Cognates

How Akkadian, the cuneiform language of a third-millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamian dynasty, sheds fascinating light on the Hebrew Bible.The Tolerance Police

For some supporters of the planned mosque at Ground Zero, preaching tolerance is just another way of impugning the arguments of opponents they cannot tolerate.A Film Unfinished

To gripping and indelible effect, a new documentary of the Holocaust incorporates never-released outtakes from a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto. On the 3rd-Century Synagogue at Dura-Europos

Where the artists borrowed from others, and where they were original and distinctive: a 1968 talk by a pre-eminent art historian. (PDF; Schapiro comments begin on page 6.)Making the Middle East Less Important

No available policy can make the region safe for the U.S. and the world; better to act so as to make the world safe from the region's pathologies.My Summer in Israel

An Egyptian scientist asks: why shouldn't Arabs learn at Israeli universities, be mentored by Israeli professors, and go on to make a contribution to their own societies and to global science?City of Refuge

A visit to the former Jewish areas of Shanghai, where thousands of refugees from Nazism found shelter.No Census Consensus

Census figures for American Muslims are inherently faulty; so, for different reasons, are the figures for American Jews.A Study in Contrasts

If Barack Obama is a progressive post-nationalist, Benjamin Netanyahu is his antithesis.