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Jerusalem in the Qur'an is a 142-page text—but Jerusalem is nowhere to be found in the Koran.The Peace Process Undermines Support for Israel

A somewhat-counterintuitive poll shows that Israel's downplaying its own rights for the sake of "peace" turns out to be the worst strategy it can pursue.Look Out Bellow!

After Saul Bellow was cuckolded, he was murderously angry and spoke of getting a gun. Instead, he got to work—and the result in no small way helped him win the Nobel Prize.Will the Real Ahasuerus Please Stand Up?

After many centuries, scholars were finally able to identify characters from the Purim story in secular sources.In Fayyad’s Hands

Salam Fayyad is both the primary vehicle for a future Palestinian state and its most effective symbol.Purimspiel

"After some time she said her name was Soumia . . . she made her way straight to the kitchen, and by the evening she had baked ten trays of cakes, and told everyone, offering them in the ashram, to help themselves to the hamantaschen." (Short story; translated from the Croatian by Iskra Pavlović)Hominid-Lupine Transmogrification

Viz., metamorphosis from bipedal omnivorous hominids into lupine carnivorous canids. (Some "Purim Torah" on the werewolf)Agunot

Ta'anit Esther, the traditional fast day preceding Purim, is observed today. In recent years it has been designated as an international day of study, reflection, and calls to action on behalf of agunot, literally "anchored" or "bound" women.Wine

On Purim, Jews are commanded, among other things, to drink. While all manner of intoxicants will do, pride of place has always gone to wine, humanity's favored escape from consciousness since the dawn of recorded time.A Tale of Two Synagogues

Frank Lloyd Wright's sprawling celebration of suburban Judaism echoes the shape of a long-ago building in Poland. And that echo tells us something about the remarkable history of synagogue architecture. (With images)