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America’s Rabbis Bounce Back

Twenty years ago, America’s communal elites curtailed the rabbis’ influence.  But with Orthodoxy’s new assertiveness, rabbis are shaping American Judaism again. Making Money Holy

Moses counted the Israelites by making each one contribute a half-shekel.  Was the money holy because it was used for sacred purposes?  Or simply because it was pure silver?The Land of No Anti-Semitism

Azerbaijan’s Jews, citizens of a pro-Israel nation with a venerable Jewish heritage, are sure that "there is no anti-Semitism here and there never has been."  But they depend on the president's favor.Investigating the Shiksa

"Who is the shiksa?  Where did she come from?  How did she get to where she is today?"  And "is calling someone a shiksa really a hate crime?"Underestimating the Holocaust

New research has revealed that the number of Nazi camps and ghettos was six times greater than previous estimates—too many to have remained invisible to the German people.Alliance of Caliphates

Kofi Annan launched the United Nations’ “Alliance of Civilizations” with the aim of “bridging divides.”  Now it provides an independently bankrolled forum for Islamist anti-Zionism.On a Mission to Save Kaifeng

After centuries of decline, Kaifeng’s Jewish community has been rejuvenated by an American Christian philanthropist.  Is he a benefactor—or a missionary?FDR and the Jews

“Roosevelt sounded at times like a Zionist, at times like a skeptic about Palestine’s capacity to absorb new settlers, and at times, when speaking to anti-Semites, like an anti-Semite himself.”Tower of Babble

A recent book on Jewish social justice claims to apply “Jewish values and law” to “pressing contemporary moral issues.”  But does it reduce the Torah to a vehicle for a political agenda?Dangerous Liaisons

Burgeoning alliances between the far Left and the theocratic Muslim Right represent "betrayals of basic socialist principle" that have "undermined struggles for secular democracy."