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Paralympic Pioneer

A refugee to England from Nazi Germany, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann’s groundbreaking treatments for traumatic paraplegia provided the platform for what has become the Paralympics.Joshua’s Fire

The discovery of jars of scorched wheat at Tel Hazor dating from 3400 years ago may be evidence of the Israelites’ destruction of the Canaanite city recounted in the book of Joshua. France’s Jewish Archbishop

The chief rabbi of Paris declared that “One cannot be both a Christian and a Jew.”  But Jean-Marie (Aron) Lustiger never surrendered his double identity.Who is an Arab Jew?

“The much vaunted idyllic life of the Jews in Arab lands is a myth! The truth, since I am obliged to return to it, is that from the outset we were a minority in a hostile environment.” (1975)Strife in the Sinai

In the two years prior to Sunday’s attack which left 16 Egyptian soldiers dead, Bedouin leaders had reported a resurgence in al-Qaeda affiliates operating in the peninsula.Fans or Voyeurs?

Ex-Orthodox women’s literature is becoming an unlikely subgenre of its own, but the quality of the writing is not quite keeping pace with its popularity.Jewish-Born Catholic Theologians

While the revolution in the Vatican’s attitude to Jews, led by converts from Judaism, was by no means inevitable, the changes in Catholic doctrine are here to stay.Fatah’s Uncertain Future

With the Palestinian Authority saying one thing to Israel and another to its grassroots in Fatah, it may not be long before Fatah turns against it—in armed struggle.The Dignity of the Individual

In which the Rov rejects the death penalty for the Rosenbergs, says that slander in political elections is forbidden, and admits personal tension between his ideal of dignity and his impatience with the less educated. (1959; lecture notes)Keepers of the Kibbutz

While the number of international recruits to kibbutzim has declined since the 1970s, the kibbutz movement has spearheaded a revival of volunteerism over the last decade.