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After 1,500 years, an index to the Talmud has been created—and not by a white-bearded sage, but by a courtly, clean-shaven, tennis-playing immigration lawyer from the Bronx.Those Who Came Before

"Just as a person must find for himself a teacher in this world, so too a person must find for himself a teacher in the next world," said Simcha Bunim. The commemoration of yahrzeits is an ideal way to do so.Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel

Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran shows readers inside his collection of the Hanukkah tops, one of the loveliest and largest in the world. (Photos)Obama’s Jewish Problem

The core of the Obama campaign's play for Jewish votes is simple: Overwhelm what the Obama camp sees as Republicans' bald emotionalism on Israel with a flood of facts and figures. Will it work?Greatness

To the Anglo-Jewish community of the 19th century, Dickens was a divisive figure, a celebrated writer but one known for his consistent use of anti-Jewish caricatures. Are You a Hellenist?

Is a contemporary acculturated American ignoring the main theme of Hanukkah? And for that matter, how did Maimonides reconcile his devotion to Greek philosophy with the ostensible message to reject Greek ideas?Unfit to Print

Netanyahu's senior adviser explains why the Prime Minister "respectfully declined" to write for the New York Times: "We wouldn't want to be seen as "Bibiwashing" the op-ed page."Found on Hanukkah

Excavations near the Western Wall unearthed a rare clay seal that appears to have been used to authenticate the purity of ritual objects used in the Second Temple.Occupy Wall Street and the Jews

Predictably, the Occupy movement was plagued by conspiracy theories implicating Jews and Israel. Which makes the prominent Jewish involvement in the protests all the more curious and alarming.