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Radio Days

Thirty years ago, musicologist Henry Sapoznik discovered a trove of 1,000 recordings of inter-war American Yiddish radio shows.From Habermas to Judith Butler

A Jew who came to prominence as an academic proponent of anti-Israel divestment, Berkeley's star post-structuralist has just won Germany’s prestigious Theodor Adorno Prize.What Was Yad Vashem Thinking?

Six years after the museum was called to task for its systematic underrepresentation of religious victims of the Holocaust, there’s not much evidence of change.Under My Umbrella?

The use of umbrellas on Shabbat, universally forbidden in Orthodoxy, is an example of an early authority dominating the discussion and setting communal standards.Chabad vs. Chabad

What’s at stake in a decades-long battle by a powerful Lubavitch rabbi to take over the deed to a 150-family synagogue in a Detroit suburb?Burnt House

An excavated palace not far from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount might have been the palace of the High Priest Annas—and thus the site of Jesus’ Jewish trial.  (Interview by Justin Taylor)Education, Not Persecution

Literacy explains the Jews’ scattered settlement in scores of small communities throughout Christian Europe, where the demand for skilled occupations was limited.The Not-So-Grand

Armchair diplomats keep inventing “grand bargains”—for Syria, Afghanistan, the Middle East.  But what diplomats do best is to sweat the details, not impose overarching solutions dreamed up abroad.Act of God?

Scientists studying the Dead Sea have found that 3,200 years ago in Canaan, a significant drought coincided with the collapse of the urban economy—and conquest by the Israelites. Europe’s New Religion

As human rights becomes Europe’s reigning code of ethics, Jews across the continent face attacks by the secular establishment on ritual circumcision. (PDF)