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Decoding Day School Enrollment

Despite two decades and millions of dollars spent pushing the idea, Jewish day schooling just isn't catching on among non-Orthodox American Jews.The Afghanistan Genizah

The scholarly world is abuzz over a cave filled with ancient scrolls that may be the most significant historical discovery in the Jewish world since that of the Cairo Genizah.  (Hebrew report with video here.)      Bullies, Sluts, Bulimics . . . and Supreme Court Justices

Given the numbers of women involved over the decades, historians won't be able to ignore the Jewish sorority experience for much longer. (PDF) Re: Occupy

A response to Commentary's feature article on Occupy Wall Street and the Jews.Channel 10 Facing Chapter 11

The troubles of the Israeli TV station are being cast as part of a broader cultural and political war for control over the judiciary, the reporting of news, and public discourse.The Philosopher’s War

How Bernard-Henri Lévy managed to goad Sarkozy—and the world—into vanquishing Qaddafi.On the Jesus Trail

One journalist hikes the 65-kilometer path in the Galilee, passing from Nazareth through olive groves, the "Cana Wedding Guest House," and a kibbutz manufacturing synagogue furniture to Jesus' "home base" in Capernaum.Women Unite! For . . .

The driving force behind Israel's mass demonstration against Haredi violence against women was not women's rights, but religious coercion.Communal Table

What exactly are "Jewish baked goods"? The ones that come first to mind—bagels, rugelach, challah—can all be traced back to the Gentile European societies in which the Jews found themselves living at various times.