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Signs of Life

In hip, avant-garde, multicultural Tel Aviv, the latest cool thing is . . . Yiddish.Gone West

A new exhibit documents the founding and the flourishing of Chicago's Jewish community.Losing Robinson Crusoe

A translation of a 20th-century Torah commentary has excised its author's moving paragraph on the "agony of solitude" endured by Daniel Defoe's hero. Why?A Mission to the Gentiles

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has issued a revolutionary and problematic plea for the teaching of Torah to Christians, evidently with an eye toward genuine theological commonality between the two faiths.Minority Report

A visit with members of minority populations who straddle the mountainous regions bordering Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. (With photos)The Sonderberg Case

Is all the world a stage? A theater critic uses his training to report on the trial of a young German defendant pleading "Guilty . . . and not guilty." (Novel excerpt)The Devil Is in the Details

Christianity took the idea of Satan from the Jews and developed it much farther, including by associating the Jews themselves with the devil.Crackdown

Newly discovered documents show that Marshal Pétain, head of France's Vichy regime, personally penciled harsher measures into Nazi Germany's anti-Semitic legislation.Atonement Now

On the anniversary of the October 1973 war, recently released official documents present a misleadingly partial picture of the behavior of General Moshe Dayan.Defacing the Score

A new book on Gustav Mahler portrays the composer as a historical prophet, which he was not, and as haunted by his conversion to Christianity, which he also was not.