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Saving Aramaic

Aramaic, the language of the Talmud, is dying as a spoken language.  So, Cambridge professor Geoffrey Khan is racing from Tblisi to Chicago to document every dialect.Keeping the Campfires Burning

Remember the joys of Jewish summer camp? Foundations think that Jewish camping is critical to Jewish identity, and they’re increasing subsidies to keep it affordable.Redemption of the First Shorn

What’s the grammatical difference between upsheren and upsherenish?  It’s the difference between an ordinary haircut and an offering to the Lord.When the Gatekeepers Won’t Shut Up

The Oscar-nominated Gatekeepers interviews all the living heads of Israeli intelligence. The last time that happened, the result was the Israeli pullout that left Gaza to Hamas.  The Redemptive Chutzpah of Ed Koch

As New York City’s mayor from 1978 to 1989, Ed Koch, who died last week, is credited with having saved the city from bankruptcy—in a "brashly Jewish way."Criticizing the Biblical Critics

Modern biblical criticism, for all its sophistication, treats "only the literal meaning of the Bible’s words on the page, divorced from Judaism’s age-old traditions of interpretation." (Interview by Alan Brill)America’s New Religious Divide

The religious dividing line in today’s America no longer pits Protestants against Catholics or even Christians against Jews, but separates religious liberals from religious conservatives.The Science of Muddling Through

Drawing on Burke, Chaim Navon argues that women will gradually assume larger roles in Orthodox Judaism—and that those who demand sudden change risk doing more harm than good. Asking Hagel the Real Questions

Chuck Hagel seems to believe that without the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Middle East would be a "placid lake"—a view "utterly discredited by events."Isaiah Berlin’s Liberal Zionism

An advocate of individual liberty, Isaiah Berlin defended Zionism not for liberating the Jewish nation but for giving individual Jews a choice: whether to live in Israel or the Diaspora.