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Their Last Full Measure of Devotion

In the Hebrew Cemetery of Richmond, Virginia, lie the remains of 30 Jewish soldiers who fought and died for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. (With video.)Bibi’s Brain

Netanyahu's senior adviser, an American Jew, has done more to shape Israel's relationships in recent years than any man aside from the prime minister himself. “Corrected against My Own Book”

Oxford's Bodleian Library has made its famous manuscript copy of Maimonides' code of Jewish law available online in its entirety.Jewish in Turkey

A community depleted by decades of out-migration insists that it feels completely at home; in private, speaking not for attribution, many voice fear—or defiance.Nitzavim-Vayeilekh: The Song of Torah

"Now, write for yourselves this song [shirah]; teach it to the Children of Israel and place it in their mouths . . . " (31:19) These are the directions Moses gave to the priests and elders, in whose care he entrusted the song, with instructions to read it to the entire community of Israel on the occasion of their gathering in the Temple on the festival of Sukkot.Expert Deception

Israel's social protesters are appealing to the authority of a "team of experts"—really just utopian fantasists making elementary economic errors.Trap and Trade

Sharon's uprooting of Gush Katif was supposed to be a step toward peace. Instead it planted the idea that areas can be ethnically cleansed of Jews. There is No Palestinian State

Just as the partition vote in 1948 did not "create" a Jewish state, so too the present vote will not create a Palestinian one.