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Educate and Innovate

Examining the central role played by women in teaching American Jews, a collection of essays looks beyond religious school to settlement houses, camps, children's literature, adult education, and the arts.Death of a Supermaven

Sol Steinmetz—American rabbi and cantor, linguist and lexicographer, etymologist and authority on Yiddish—died at age eighty.The Great Engagement Swindle

Since the U.S. joined it last year, the UN Human Rights Council has praised the Sudanese for re-electing a president indicted for genocide, ignored atrocities in the Congo, and demonized Israel.Abraham’s Progeny?

A stunning exhibit at the New York Public Library gathers rare works of the three "Abrahamic faiths," stressing similarities but ignoring historically momentous differences.Larger than Life

Teddy Kollek's son recalls childhood encounters with two of Israel's national heroes: the humorless, imposing David Ben-Gurion, and the blunt, courageous, womanizing Moshe Dayan.The Islamist

An otherwise credible new book traces the intellectual development of Sayyid Qutb, the ideologue of radical Islamism, while skating over his fanatical anti-Semitism.The Other Islam

The benign East Asian model of the religion is threatened by the extremist Saudis on one side, the materialistic Chinese on the other. We should be rooting for the Chinese.Intellectuals in Flight

A hit job in the New York Review of Books highlights the disgraceful abandonment of Israel by Western liberal intellectuals.Right Turn?

The American Jewish vote remains strongly Democratic at the national level but is less so at the state level—which could make a difference in some of November's close-run races.Why Rabin Square was Empty

If this year's memorial rally for the slain leader was sparsely attended, the reason is not public apathy but Israelis' weariness with the glorification of a peace agreement soaked in Jewish blood.