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The Palate of Algiers

The large and ancient Algerian Jewish community is all but gone; its cuisine remains. Meet the Robot Snake

Inventions in the robotics lab of Ben-Gurion University will help ready the IDF and other militaries for this century's evolving high-tech battlefields. (Video)Vayikra: No “I” in Moses

"God summoned Moses and He spoke with him from the Tent of Meeting, saying..." (Leviticus 1:1). The first Hebrew word of this week's portion, itself the first portion in the third book of the Torah, is VAYIKRa: "summoned." That's not a typographical error; the letter aleph at the end of the word is intentionally written in miniature in a Torah scroll (and usually in print as well). This is sufficiently unusual to raise the question: why?Irving Howe and I

An association with the most ideologically rigid of the New York intellectuals was cemented by a mutual devotion to Yiddish literature and buffeted by disagreements over issues of Jewish moment.Women’s Surprising Defenders

Why do ultra-Orthodox Jews dominate an Israeli rescue enterprise that by rights ought to be the cause of secular feminists?Let’s Talk About It

A pioneering course of instruction helps rabbis to advise religious couples on problems in the bedroom.Chagall in Paris

A Philadelphia exhibit shows the encounter of the desperately poor and isolated Russian Jewish artist with a world whose love he craved and, with mixed results for his art, won.How the End Begins

Ron Rosenbaum's speculations on the prospect of nuclear war are most acute in his treatment of Israel's struggle to forestall "Hitler's chain reaction" in the Middle East.A Moment to Savor

In the wake of several recent anti-Semitic incidents, who would have thought that Jews could pick up a newspaper to discover that the leading voice in their defense is the Pope?