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The Limits of Secularism

Isaiah Berlin didn't understand how the Chief Rabbi could have studied philosophy at Cambridge and Oxford and still have faith. "Isaiah," said Sacks, "if it helps, think of me as a lapsed heretic."Go Ahead, Buy that Train Set

A holiday season defense of material pleasures.Diaspora Disneys

From Poland to Spain, former Jewish quarters are being turned into theme-park-style tourist attractions—some respectful, some not. But is this fate still better than oblivion?Digging that Hole

Attempting to defend his political science department against charges of bias, one professor betrayed the true depth of the problem by likening Israel to Nazi Germany in several key respects.Flow

Three songs performed by the reggae fusion star, along with an interview about his changing relationship to Judaism and, yes, his recently shorn face. (Video) Hanukkah (from “Notes on the Spring Holidays”)

In a world where each man must be of useand each thing useful, the rebellious Jewslight not one light but eight—not to see by but to look at.Hanukkah (from “Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays”)

Go swiftly in your chariot, my fellow Jew,you who are blessed with horses;and I will follow as best I can afoot,bringing with me perhaps a word or two.Speak your learned and witty discoursesand I will utter my word or two— not by might not by powerbut by Your Spirit, Lord.Blaming the Jews

It would be Jewish journalists, of course, who have come up with the smartest ways to package anti-Jewish sentiment for a U.S. audience in the presidential election season.