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A Sephardic Agnon

"Where are the wordplays of the Sephardic kabbalists, the homiletics of the Aleppo scholars, the halakhic terminology of Moroccan rabbis?" wondered author Haim Sabato. "Who will sketch their profiles, in their language?"Living in Anne Frank’s Shadow

"Otto would talk continuously about Anne, and I got to know her," recalls Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's stepsister.  "It was his obsession, the reason for existence." On Israel’s Jewish Future

"The real debate in Israel now is not whether to extend the existing religious Orthodox monopoly but whether to keep it at all."After Fayyad

Salam Fayyad's resignation as Palestinian prime minister signals the failure of his proactive approach to state-building—and the return of corruption and mob rule.Memories of Maggie

"In public, her leadership style was more like Moses than Aaron—more conviction and confrontation than compromise and conciliation.  But we need them both." (Audio)Art That’s “Too Jewish”

Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millet was aiming to revive the Christian pathos of early-Renaissance art.  But critics attacked him for "portraying the youthful Savior as a red-headed Jew boy."Philo’s Esoteric Torah

Influenced by the Hellenistic idea of the separation between body and soul, Philo was the first Jewish thinker to ascribe "outer" and "inner" rationales to the commandments—but by no means the last.