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The Fall of the House of Wittgenstein

A Beethoven sculpture, a "gift of Paul Wittgenstein," has just arrived at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.  It reminds us of a brilliant family of Secession-era Vienna—and its fall.Earthquake Exercises

Israel just held its sixth annual “home front” exercises.  Past exercises have prepared for terrorist attacks and war.  This one was the first to contemplate a natural disaster.Carlebach’s Broken Mirror

“He told fantastical stories about a prewar Jewish world that never existed. He knew that. We knew that. But it didn’t matter.”  Martin Buber and the Holocaust

Martin Buber was the preeminent Jewish thinker of his generation and the intellectual leader of German Jewry during its darkest hour. So why does his theology ignore the Holocaust?Stalin’s Jewish Spies

While Stalin was persecuting their coreligionists at home, a disproportionate number of Jews dutifully served him by spying on America’s nuclear research.Hope and Change—for Israeli Arabs

Aatef Karinaoui is running for the Knesset—as a pro-Israel Arab.  “Our leaders have defrauded us,” he says.  “We will do more for the people in five years than they have done in 60.”Elegy for a Tree

For the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: A rabbi eulogizes a downed tree.  It is no accident, he says, that Proverbs describes the Torah as a “tree of life.”Crypto-Jews vs. the Catholic Church

As Hispanic Crypto-Jews rediscover their spiritual heritage, many have also discovered the material heritage stolen from them—and could sue the Catholic Church to get it back.America’s Holy Haunted Houses

Halloween is most certainly no Jewish holiday; yet its spooky mood is curiously congruent with the ambience that overcomes American synagogues this time of year.Worlds in Collision

When Immanuel Velikovsky sought to explain biblical events in terms of astronomy, he ended up in a violent collision with the scientific establishment.