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Ritual Art or Ritual Hype

Two events in San Francisco spark thoughts on art, fashion, and tradition.Mysteries of the Baal Shem Tov

Little is known about the birth of the founder of the Hasidic movement, but much about his passing.Israel and the OECD

Joining the club of market-economy democracies will no doubt assist Israel's development and is a welcome "seal of approval," but the country needs more internal reforms.The State of Arab States

Among the twenty-two members of the Arab League, an Arab writer finds not a single representative state; actually there is one, if a fragile one.Scotland’s Jewry

Numbering 10,000 souls and dwindling, the community faces its worst period of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist intimidation in decades.Mentored by Gauguin

A Paris exhibit reestablishes Meijer de Haan, an energetic painter inspired by Jewish themes, as a considerable artistic force.Shavuot: Receptivity is All

A holiday characterized by no specific ritual act, Shavuot recapitulates the Israelites' embrace of the Torah at Sinai in a mood of perfect acceptance.Shavuot: Covenant and Meaning

Who better exemplifies the contract between God and the Jews: the Abraham willing to sacrifice his son Isaac, or the Abraham empowered by God to argue with Him?Way West

According to a new, richly documented history of Jewish settlement along the Pacific coast, the frontier spirit created something unique in American Jewish experience.Israel’s Elites

Thanks to the ethos of Zionism, the country's business, political, and defense elites are integrated; its anti-Zionist elite, by contrast, is almost entirely Ashkenazi.