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Yasir Arafat Poisoned?

Eight years after Arafat’s mysterious death in Paris, the French have begun a criminal investigation.  Who poisoned him?  The Israelis?  Or, with outside help, his Palestinian comrades?The Talmud in Dutch, a Tribute

Holocaust survivor Jacob de Leeuwe has finished translating the first tractate into Dutch, in a tribute to a vanishing community and a work of "tikkun."The Futurist

“Pregnancy is barbaric,” wrote Shulamith Firestone (italics hers, indignation ours).  But she was as much da Vinci as de Beauvoir, predicting artificial wombs, donor-sperm banks, even computer schooling. Tales from Tiberias

“Now,” said the rabbi, “Go home and tell your husband you spat in my face seven times!”Amis on Evil, Amis on Levi

Until recently the problem of understanding Hitler had bedeviled Martin Amis.  Then he read a passage of Primo Levi’s. “Hora to an Exiled Girl”

A long-lost Hannah Szenes poem comes to light.Rabbinical School Encounters

“My willingness to criticize the Palestinians, in general, and their political leadership, specifically, was not mainstream.”  A Conservative rabbi-in-training responds to Elliot Jager, and to his peers. Start-Up Nation, Shut-Down Bureacracy

Israel has lots of sun and the best of solar technology.  But just try getting the government’s go-ahead for a solar energy project.Talmudic Stories, with Ruth Calderon

Woven into the Talmud’s legal arguments are “miniature stories,” written by Babylonian rabbis, that leaven the debate with human texture. Two Faces of the Law

How two halakhic authorities, Rabbis Avraham Yitzhak Kook and Bentzion Meir Hai Uziel, examine the same texts—and reach opposite conclusions.