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Murky Turkey

Why most Turks do not know even the rudimentary facts about Hamas, let alone anything about what really happened on the Mavi Marmara.In Retreat

Legal inflexibility and blanket opposition to change are rendering modern Orthodoxy less modern and more Orthodox, argues an Orthodox rabbi.Iran’s Arab Puppet

Syrian President Assad is flexing his muscles, but Iran is pulling the strings.A Saint of the Ledger

A recently auctioned account book reveals a Cincinnati rabbi's valiant and meticulously recorded efforts to rescue European Jewish leaders from the Nazis.Start-Up Continent?

New initiatives dedicated to Jewish education and culture proliferate across Europe, even as European Jewry's numbers stagnate or decline. The Way to Civilization

. . . is through the stomach, argues the new Encyclopedia of Jewish Food.Hearing it Every Which Way

Elijah (1846), an oratorio by the baptized Felix Mendelssohn, has been interpreted as evincing Christian sentiments, Jewish sentiments, both, and neither.Supersessionism: Alive and Well?

How deeply embedded within present-day Christianity is the theological principle that the Jews have been replaced as God's chosen people?The Great Code

A copy of Maimonides' code of Jewish law, Mishneh Torah, signed, authorized, and approved for its accuracy by the master himself (1135-1204) , is now, thanks to modern technology, accessible to all.