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Why Are We Still Fasting?

Both Purim and Pesach celebrate the deliverance of the Jewish people.  But the fast preceding each festival reminds us that "to achieve redemption, we first have to go through a measure of suffering."America’s New Jewish Secularism

A new book says that American Jews, free of previous generations’ pressure to assimilate, are producing a vibrant secular Jewish culture whose continued growth "seems assured."Misuses of the Holocaust

"Is the Holocaust of European Jewry during World War II an absolutely unique event?  Or may it properly be used to refer to other events of mass massacres?"Searching for Sodom

Using biblical clues to search for ancient Sodom, archeologists excavated Tall el-Hammam in Jordan—and found evidence of a sudden and extreme conflagration over 3,000 years ago.Speaking Jewish

"American Jews speak a Jewish language comparable to Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Greek, and many other Diaspora languages." (Interview by Alan Brill)From The White Rose . . .

Sophie and Hans Scholl, who led Germany’s only Nazi-era public protest against Hitler and the Holocaust, were executed 70 years ago this month.  But in Germany, their legacy lives on.  . . . To The Black Rose

In 1904 the townsfolk of Limerick, Ireland, boycotted Jewish businesses and forced the town’s 150 Jews to leave.  As late as 1970, the town’s mayor defended the action.When the Sun Stood Still

Copernicus' heliocentrism, though embraced by many Jews, threatened Judaism—not by displacing man from the center of the universe but by elevating him to the heavens.The Indonesian Temple Mount

His mother is Muslim, his father Protestant.  But Yaakov Baruch, who runs Indonesia's only Jewish community, says, "I feel like I'm in Jerusalem."The Bible, for Non-Believers

In his commentary on the Torah, Leon Kass does not begin from the premise that the text is divinely revealed.  But he makes a strong case that man cannot live by reason alone.