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A World Unknown

The American journalist Edward Serotta has collected the life stories and family photographs of elderly Jews who chose to remain in Central Europe after World War II. (Slideshow and video.) Wailing over the Palestine Papers

Do the documents leaked to al-Jazeera prove, as some claim, that the Palestinians were willing to go far to achieve peace? Far from it.What is Peoplehood?

A faddish word in the lingo of today's institutional Judaism, "peoplehood" deserves greater—and more critical—attention.    Gadi Taub and the Meaning of Zionism

On nationalism and democracy, Israel and Europe, and the role of the writer; an interview with the left-wing Zionist author and scourge of West Bank settlements.Judeomania!

Growing ties between China and Israel can be explained in terms of mutual interests—but whence the growing Chinese interest in all things Jewish?Jazz Standards

Clarinetist Anat Cohen, a master of expressive improvisation, leads a talented wave of Israeli musicians flooding the New York jazz scene. (With audio clips.)Who Killed Jesus?

In a forthcoming book, the legal scholar Joseph Weiler argues that, in the events surrounding the death of Jesus, Jews were acting out their biblically mandated part in a divine drama of obedience.Lies, Damned Lies, and Communal Statistics

How an anti-Semitic comment fueled the first great census of New York Jews and inspired a venerable tradition.Under the Old City

A 2,000-year-old drainage channel underneath the Western Wall plaza dramatically enriches the picture of Jerusalem in the period of the Second Temple.