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Hanukkah (from “Notes on the Spring Holidays”)

In a world where each man must be of useand each thing useful, the rebellious Jewslight not one light but eight—not to see by but to look at.Hanukkah (from “Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays”)

Go swiftly in your chariot, my fellow Jew,you who are blessed with horses;and I will follow as best I can afoot,bringing with me perhaps a word or two.Speak your learned and witty discoursesand I will utter my word or two— not by might not by powerbut by Your Spirit, Lord.Yehuda Halevi’s Death and the Cairo Genizah

Legend says the great 12th-century Spanish hymnist reached Eretz Yisrael but was killed at Jerusalem's city gate. Genizah documents suggest that the legend was based on fact.The Iranian Schindler

Hitler declared Iran an Aryan nation. But Iran's head diplomat in World War II Paris used his connections and personal fortune to save thousands of Iranian Jews living in France.Eco Chamber

With The Prague Cemetery's virulently anti-Semitic protagonist, Umberto Eco may have joined those famous authors whose "editors grew afraid to edit them even as reviewers grew unwilling to pan them."Happy Hanukkah, Marines!

There are few more illuminating tributes to Judah Maccabee than the American Jews who don the uniform of the United States Marines.Havel and the Jews

Rita Klimova, Havel's ambassador to the U.S., was a Jew who lived on Riverside Drive. But the connections among Israel, the Jews, and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution went much deeper. (Interview by Marc Tracy)Blaming the Jews

It would be Jewish journalists, of course, who have come up with the smartest ways to package anti-Jewish sentiment for a U.S. audience in the presidential election season.An Alternative to the Suez Canal?

Israel is signing an agreement with China to build a railroad from Eilat to Tel Aviv. It will develop the Negev—and may make the Canal loom a little less large.The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

There are over 16,000 books on the Holocaust. "If I had to limit my own library to ten out of those sixteen thousand," says a reviewer, "this would be one of them."