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Let Us Now Praise Muslim Feminists

One Jewish woman celebrates the 19th- and early-20th-century Muslims who emerged from sex slavery to fight for universal human rights.Israel Alone

Why is Washington running away from its influence in the Middle East?Declaring Death

In the 1960's, Israeli doctors began aggressively promoting the view that declaration of death was a purely medical matter. But it wasn't easy to enlist rabbis in their cause.Why Fast?

Expiation, corrective, a reflection of mood, or sensitization to the plight of the needy? Only one of these reasons has biblical support.Bad Bans

By banning bans on circumcision, California now drives the debate about this issue underground, where it will fester among the most hostile opponents of the practice.Paradise Regained

A literary encounter with Paradise Lost helped one graduate student access the poetry inherent in the Jewish idea of repentance.  Who Lived in Qumran?

An architectural analysis of the area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered supports the identification of the community as a Second Temple-era Jewish sect known as the Essenes.A Palestinian Moderate Speaks

Even Sari Nusseibeh, the worldly and well-respected intellectual and peace activist, cannot bring himself to accept the reality of Israel as the Jewish state.Holocaust Kitsch

A 1967 opera set in Auschwitz, unperformed until a year ago, is tawdry in its plot, derivative in its music, and of doubtful integrity in its purposes.The Fast of Fasts

In rabbinic times, when a Jew spoke of "the fast," there was no need to be more specific—as even a passage in the New Testament interestingly attests.