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Revisiting the Reich

William L. Shirer's 1960 history of the Third Reich remains the seminal account of the philosophical roots of Nazism and a stark warning of the dangers of mass political movements.The Original Kosher Jesus

150 years ago, Rabbi Elias Soloweyczk published commentaries on Matthew and Mark, aimed not at rejecting the Gospels but showing their concordance with the Talmud.The New Normal

In spite of the Islamist ideology of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey may prove to be a key U.S. ally in the Middle East during the coming decades.Moses Descending Yosemite’s Half Dome

By combining a focus on the lost and endangered with attention to the local and a taste for the avant-garde, the Magnes Museum helped define an approach to Judaism that was deliberately decentered.Strange Land

Couldn't the New York Times find a writer without heavy-duty psychological baggage to pen a travel feature on Israel?  (Maybe not, but Matt Gross's article might still be a welcome narrative.)      Dispatches from Madsville

There's a perverseness in making the very word 'Holocaust' sacred when the thing it denotes was an outbreak of mass barbarism that most of us still find near impossible to comprehend.Dishonoring MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr. was quite clear: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews."  But one high school student has just won a writing award in King's name by slandering Israel.    What is Modesty?

The Talmud forbids a man from gazing sexually at even a woman's "smallest finger." Does it thus require women to cover their hands? No; it places the burden of self-control on men. Kosher Jesus

Shmuley Boteach's strategy is a familiar one—reject the Gospels and strip Christianity of its beliefs. It is, in fact, an old form of polemic. (And Boteach's reaction to media coverage of his book is telling.)