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Evolutionary Torah

A team of scholars has been laboring for a half-century to produce a comprehensive critical edition of the Hebrew Bible; so far, three books have appeared.Returning Home

With economic progress and relative quiet on the West Bank, the mass exodus of Palestinian Christians has slowed; some are coming back.Groupthink and the Sanhedrin

Did the decision-making practices of the ancient Jewish legislative body anticipate modern wisdom on averting conformism and encouraging dissent?Fiddles of Hope

A Tel Aviv restorer specializes in violins that survived the Holocaust; at Auschwitz recently, Shlomo Mintz played one of them for visiting IDF cadets and officers.Raising the Stakes on Jerusalem

Never until now has an American President made an issue of home-building in Jewish neighborhoods established in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war and the city's reunification.Telling It Like It Wasn’t

Twenty years after the notorious anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a former New York Times reporter relates how his paper stubbornly persisted in mischaracterizing the events as a "racial clash."By Faith Alone

The late Rabbi Yehuda Amital was an influential Israeli educator, instrumental in integrating yeshiva study with military service, and an opponent of rabbis' setting public policy.Southern Belle

Is beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, the birthplace of Reform Judaism in North America, about to experience a resurgence of Jewish residents and to become again a center of American Jewish life?A Devil’s Diaries

Joseph Mengele's post-Holocaust diaries, recently auctioned off and feared to have fallen into neo-Nazi hands, were actually bought by a son of survivors ready to loan them to Yad Vashem.Why Study Talmud?

An important question, to which a collection of entertaining personal testimonies by contemporary talmudists repeatedly yields a common answer: for the joy of it.