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Urban Legend

Odessa's Jews never made up more than a third of the population, but their imprint on the city was indelible.Do Israelis Speak Hebrew?

Despite the tremendous success of modern Hebrew, there is evidence, including in the growing use of English, that the language is losing some of its connections with its specifically Jewish roots.Transmission Tale

In a show of one-upmanship directed at the U.S., Stalin claimed a Russian Jewish polymath—by coincidence, the grandfather of the American musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky—as the inventor of the telegraph.Neighborhood Watch

Contrary to conventional wisdom in the West that a Palestinian state needs to be created to contain the Islamist threat, Israelis believe the reverse to be true.Close to the Jews

The steep rise in intermarriage has prompted some Conservative leaders and synagogues to introduce a hybrid category of Jewishly affiliated non-Jews. (Interview by Shmuel Rosner.)Iran Losing?

Why Tehran is unlikely to emerge from the current turmoil as the key power broker in the Middle East.Seeds of Subversion

Far from having proved a success, Jewish secularism has shown itself poorly equipped to withstand the erosions of liberal democratic societies.Either/Or

Was the great Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard a theological anti-Semite, as a controversial new book claims?Wooing Jews

Several dozen American synagogues now offer loans, grants, and incentives to attract young families to their communities. Is this poaching, or just good marketing?The Pragmatic Fantasy

The overwhelming animosity of the "Arab Street" toward Israel has caused political realists to argue—wrongly—that the country's best play is to cut deals with Arab dictators.