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Fanatics Have No Fun

Fear of enjoyment is a singular, doctrinal feature of Islamist states and movements, as today's Iran exemplifies.You Religious?

Joseph Telushkin, named by Newsweek as one of America's most influential rabbis, commends the teaching of the sage Hillel that ethics is not secondary to ritual. (Video)Making Music to His Name

Apropos the playing of musical instruments on the Sabbath: why did the rabbis proscribe what the Lord prescribed?From Ally to Enemy

Turkey, the only successful Muslim country in the Middle East, is today an Islamic republic in all but name.Call it Fascism

Gaza is a brutal place with a totalitarian government steeped in a cult of violence and death. Why does it receive support from "useful idiots" in the West?The Politics of Babel

At the very core of the Hebrew Bible lies an insistence on the centrality of the ethnic-cultural state. Doubting the Divine

The dilemma of liberal Judaism, a new anthology suggests, is that its theologians can barely mouth the word "God" without a blizzard of qualifications.Archaeological Politics

Only in Israel are politically motivated critics permitted to obstruct even the most impeccably conducted digs.Bubbles to the Last Squirt

A handful of seltzer men maintain a Jewish habit as old and as valuable as brisket.