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Abraham, the Rugged Individualist?

In his willingness to leave his native land for Canaan, his nomadic existence, and his disdain for Pharaonic bureaucracy, Abraham was not only the first monotheist but the first individualist.    The Nugatory Nine Days

By scrupulously observing the various restrictions of the Nine Days without internalizing the spirit of mourning that the law reflects, today's Jews embody the reason for the Temple's destruction.Jabotinsky’s Dream

Half a century before liberal Jewish activists made common cause with the civil rights movement, the revisionist Zionist was already speaking out against racism in the U.S. and South Africa.  Watershed in Bulgaria

Bulgaria's small Jewish community has always had peaceful relations with the country's Muslims. But fears are growing that last week's attack had local support on the ground. Commandment Keepers

Long ignored or dismissed as inauthentic by the Jewish establishment, black Jews are gradually gaining wider acceptance.  Crooked Timber

S.Y. Agnon wrote his first book “without pause, working for four consecutive days, from four in the morning until four in the afternoon, feeding on bread and olives, not yielding from the act of writing."Spymaster

While Mubarak's former right-hand man, who died last week, was not exactly a friend of Israel, he believed in peace and had the power to maintain it.Reengaging with Gush Katif

Seven years after Israel's disengagement from Gaza, many of the forcibly evicted Jewish residents remain homeless, jobless, and abandoned by the State which promised to support them.Fishing for Philistines

Goliath’s kinsmen fed on dogs and pigs, enjoyed beer, and . . . took opium?  Time for Population Separation

Syria and Lebanon will soon be reconfigured into Sunni, Alawite, Christian, Druse, and Kurdish states—righting the wrong perpetrated by the French many decades ago.