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Tied Together and Distinct

Jeffrey Eugenides’s Marriage Plot suggests that in our age of moral confusion, marriage is a lesser problem.  In Hillel Halkin’s astonishingly rich first novel, marriage is the moral problem.  Attacking Israel Online

Ironically, charting both the writings and the career trajectories of devoted anti-Zionists makes a uniquely strong case for the continued existence and protection of the Jewish state.Pius the Pious?

Under pressure from the Vatican, Yad Vashem now presents Pope Pius XII’s silence during the Holocaust as an attempt to protect the Church—and, by extension, the Jews.  Bibi the Backtracker

By disbanding the committee that he set up to find a replacement for the Tal Law, Bibi has shown that while he may still believe that Haredim should serve, he would prefer them to prop up his premiership.Bibi the Balancer

With the Keshev Committee threatening to destroy all the progress that has been made with the Haredi community in the last decade, Bibi had no option but to go back to the drawing board.Irwin Isaac Meiselman

“I should have said, ‘Of course I don't want to read your chapter. Why the hell would I want to do that?’  Instead I hear myself saying, ‘Sounds interesting. I'd very much like to read it.’” (Fiction)The Fourth of July and the Jews

“So, what is so unusual about our sojourn with America? It is, in terms of historical significance, perhaps the most beneficent, generous, and happy marriage we, as a people, have ever had!”New York’s First—and Last—Chief Rabbi

In the 1880’s, New York’s Jewish community was lax in practice and lacking in direction. Nor did it want to change—as Yaakov Yosef discovered to his detriment.A Forgotten Hero

Francis Salvador is remembered only as the first Jew to be killed in the Revolutionary War. But as a wealthy English Jew who became a patriotic American democrat, he epitomized the American dream.   Roosevelt’s Religion

For conservatives, the Judeo-Christian tradition is the ancient basis of the Western world—while for liberals, it’s a conservative myth. But if there is such a tradition, it was created by a liberal president.