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P.O.R.K.

"Our children have suddenly become ultra-Orthodox. What do we do?" P.O.R.K. to the rescue!Face to Face

One was a talmudist, the other an ontologist—yet the two figures' work reveals striking similarities. Either it was a case of plagiarism or an instance of cosmic significance.A Myth for the Misbegotten

Ten years after the Jenin massacre-that-wasn't, what has the press done to correct its fabrications, and to guard against further calumnies?Israel, Where’s Your Instagram?

Israeli entrepreneurs are hitting base hits all year long but they can't seem to get into the World Series.A Fatwa against Nuclear Arms?

After three decades of Iran's using religion, sectarianism, and even the Palestinian cause for its own ends, are we really expected to trust Tehran on the basis of . . . a religious fatwa?Statistics and Moral Sense

How did Israel, with its famously rowdy press and print culture, wind up second in a ranking of countries that jail the most journalists per capita? An exchange.New York’s Lost Temple

In 1865, German Jews built the largest synagogue in the United States, capable of holding 2,000 worshipers, with a breathtaking interior space rising to the equivalent of five stories. What happened to it?A Portal to Hades

New explorations of the Twins Cave in the Judean Hills have unearthed evidence of pagan rituals suggesting that the cave was thought to be an outlet to the underworld.Spinning the Polls

Don't believe the recent surveys. Does anyone think that Obama and his rivals would spend so much time talking about Israel if they did not believe it was an issue that shaped Jews' votes?What is “Glatt”?

Technically, "glatt kosher" refers to an animal whose lungs have no adhesions.  Idiomatically, it means "very kosher."  And what does it mean to the major kashrut supervision agencies?