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The Jewish Pioneers

While Jews were tolerated in the New World, they were hardly made welcome by the Protestant majority—until they played a military and, more importantly, a financial role in the Revolution.Different, or the Same?

For over a century, American Jews have asserted that America and the Jews are a perfect fit. Is it true?The Man Who Stood Alone

Yitzhak Shamir fled Poland for Palestine, determined to live his commitment to Jewish self-reliance.  He did so with unswerving vision, until his death this past Saturday. Roots of the Right

Despite Ben-Gurion’s attempts to silence Begin, the uncompromising commitment to peace and security upheld by Begin, Shamir, and now Netanyahu came to win the hearts of the Israeli people.The Literature of Conversion

Few outsiders to religion understand that conversion changes a person’s reading habits: Rilke gives way to Ratzinger, or Hemingway to the Hafetz Hayim.How I Became an Islamist

Now a democratic activist, at the time the author joined the pan-Islamic Hizb ut Tahrir, he was a disaffected British teenager who had never read the Koran.Why Do Hasidim Dress Like That?

 “Does anybody ask a congressman why he walks into Congress with a suit or a Wall Street executive why he goes to work in a suit?” When Jews Opt for Cremation

Despite the prohibition on cremation in Jewish law, and despite the tradition of burial, dating back to Abraham buying the land for Sarah’s grave, ever more Jews are choosing to return to ashes.The New Palestinian

The Internet has given young Palestinians access to the whole world—and raised a generation that thinks differently.Remembering the Lubavitcher Rebbe

More than any other Hasidic sect, Lubavitch centered around the personality of its charismatic leader. But eighteen years this Shabbat since his death, Chabad is bigger and more active than ever before.