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Secret Agent of al-Qaeda?

An American-born imam who preached peace before 9/11 has been exposed as a principal preacher of jihadist violence to English-speaking Muslims.Why Grandmas Love Mah Jongg

The Chinese-derived game that became a Jewish-American tradition. (With audio slide show.)Islam’s Nowhere Men

Living on the seam between the Old Country and the New World, multitudes like Faisal Shahzad make up a deadly breed of combatants in a new kind of war.The Némirovsky Paradox

A new biography unconvincingly defends the Russian-Jewish-French novelist who died in Auschwitz in 1942 and whose work, rediscovered in 2004 to worldwide adulation, was then revealed to harbor a pronounced anti-Semitic streak.Soothing the Savage Breast?

The gambist Jordi Savall's ambitious "Jerusalem" project offers mesmerizing sounds but fails to demonstrate music's alleged power to unite and conciliate.Tar Heels

A new book narrates the Jewish history of North Carolina, from Roanoke Island to Harry Golden and beyond.What “Coexistence”?

A glowing report in Haaretz misrepresents the reality of Moroccan Jewish life.America in Hebrew Eyes

In Ha-Zefirah, a Warsaw daily, Hebrew-reading East European Jews in the late 19th century could learn, among other things, about an attractive, bustling, intriguing New World.Singing the Yemen Blues

From a childhood studying Torah to a career as a professional singer (and an expert in Serbian church music), Ravid Kahalani is returning to his Yemenite roots. Watch a recording session.Mappings

Tracing a word that seems to mean the same thing in Hebrew, English, and Latin.