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After Fayyad

Salam Fayyad's resignation as Palestinian prime minister signals the failure of his proactive approach to state-building—and the return of corruption and mob rule.Memories of Maggie

"In public, her leadership style was more like Moses than Aaron—more conviction and confrontation than compromise and conciliation.  But we need them both." (Audio)Art That’s “Too Jewish”

Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millet was aiming to revive the Christian pathos of early-Renaissance art.  But critics attacked him for "portraying the youthful Savior as a red-headed Jew boy."Philo’s Esoteric Torah

Influenced by the Hellenistic idea of the separation between body and soul, Philo was the first Jewish thinker to ascribe "outer" and "inner" rationales to the commandments—but by no means the last.Still Blaming the Jews

German Egyptologist Jan Assmann claims that Judaism disrupted the ancient Middle East by inventing "religious exclusivity"—and calls his theory "a historical analysis of anti-Semitism."How Kabbalah Shaped Mormonism

Joseph Smith was versed in Christian commentaries on Kabbalah as a teenager, but it was from a Jew named Alexander Neibaur that he came to understand the "secret Jewish Bible."Saving Israel’s Chief Rabbinate

After retiring as Israel's Sephardi chief rabbi in 2003, Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron set out a plan to end the chief rabbinate's hegemonic control over marriage.  Now it is time to implement it. Does Vichy Live On?

France's wartime Vichy regime, which collaborated with the Nazis, is often viewed as a historical aberration.  But a new book argues that Vichy shaped modern France.With the Zionists in Gallipoli

Having commanded both the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion during World War I, Colonel John Patterson spent the rest of his life fighting the British establishment for a Jewish homeland.65 Years On

"Our spectacular success has far exceeded the expectations of our idealistic founders.  By any rational benchmark it would be deemed a modern day miracle."