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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) Lebanon’s Unholy Bedfellows

In Lebanon the Maronites are Christian liberals, while the Shiites are Islamic theocrats.  The contradiction hasn’t kept them from an alliance based on resentment of Sunni domination.Homeshuling

As the cost of Jewish schools in America soars, several hundred families have taken to educating their children at home.  The Last Totalitarian

Noam Chomsky is more or less the last survivor of a group of intellectuals who thought systemic political violence was essentially a good thing. (Interview by Michael J. Totten)One Small Step

Neil Armstrong was more excited to walk the stairs leading to Jerusalem’s Temple than to walk on the moon.Is “Torah from Heaven” a Myth?

And by “myth,” do we mean an imaginative recreation of the past, or simply an invented past?