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Charity Begins Where?

In Israel, it's easier for charities to go abroad to raise money than it is for them to turn to the state's new wealthy class.  Initials SG

At the heart of the new film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is the Jewish identity of the pop provocateur.  The Standing Devotion

In 1706, Isaac Abendana published Discourses of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews; it includes a précis, reproduced here, of the 18 sections of the Amidah, the central daily prayer.The Unbreakable Muslim Brotherhood

To understand the Brotherhood's prospects in Egypt's upcoming elections, one has to understand the intensely disciplined organization itself.Golda Meir Was Right

"You know well how to kill," declared Turkey's prime minister to Shimon Peres. But which Middle Easterners really know well how to kill—starting with their own?Paradise Lost

In a gorgeous, bright, and haunting series of paintings, a child survivor of the Holocaust retells the story of the expulsion from Eden.Who’s Winning?

Ten years after Pearl Harbor, it seemed clear that the right side had won; ten years after 9/11, the wrong side seems to be alive and kicking. But then again, the fight's not over.No Human Rights for Jews

Polls continue to show that most Palestinian Arabs reject the right of Israeli Jews to live in peace, freedom, and dignity; in this they are encouraged by many Western policy—and opinion—makers.The Chabad Look

A 200-year-old visual tradition emerges from iconic images of Lubavitch rebbes, public menorahs, replicas of the movement's headquarters in Brooklyn, and other objects of piety.Nice and Not Nice

English lacks anything that corresponds exactly to the Yiddish sheyn, which tends to convey the classical Jewish attitude that true beauty is as much moral as physical. But "nice" comes close.