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Britain’s Maginot Line

Israel’s landscape is dotted with squat, brick-colored “Tegart forts,” built to withstand all attack and ensure long-term British military control of Palestine.  Today, they are just artifacts. The Element of Surprise

The Israelis may have invented the world’s cleverest means of disguising their Iran strategy: a public discussion so cacophonous that no one has a clue about what they might do.Two Rabbis, Two Philosophies

At the recent political conventions, Rabbi David Wolpe and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik each spoke powerfully to the contrasting political ideologies of the parties that they were addressing.Journey

For millennia, Jews made pilgrimages to Israel. Today, in a remarkable reversal, Jews in Israel make their spiritual journeys back to the Diaspora.Beards

The beard as a sacramental symbol is a visible sign of an invisible ideology. This need not be religious.Secular Meets Religious in the IDF

“The moment I touched the weapon, one of the soldiers got up from his chair and left.”The Yiddish Quran

Yiddish is so closely, so intimately, so inextricably linked to Judaism that there is something singularly odd about encountering it in the service of another, and in some ways anti-Jewish, religion.The Endangered “New York Jew”

If one insists on indulging in the dubious exercise of identifying types of Jews who are “undeserving,” it behooves us to ask who, in fact, is most worthy of communal support: those who are failing to raise and nurture a successor generation of Jews or those who are producing and educating enough Jewish children to make up for the indifference of the rest? A Real Agunah Solution

“She came across an envelope postmarked October 20, 1936.  Upon carefully opening it, she found a document written in German with the word Halitzah at the top. Although not knowing what the document was, she detected certain similarities to her parents’ ketubah . . .”Strange Story

In 1940, Abel Meeropol was called to testify before a committee investigating Communism in public schools. They wanted to know whether the American Communist Party had paid him to write "Strange Fruit."