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JDud

Could the demise of the Jewish music promoter JDub Records, though much mourned by its fans, be a harbinger of increasing seriousness among funders?     How Not to Have a Palestinian State

The Fatah-Hamas rush to declare statehood will impede the formation of civil society on the West Bank and is just another device to delegitimize the state of Israel.A Test for Arab Reformers

State-sanctioned lies about Israel and the West have a long history in the Arab world; why not open the archives at last, and let the truth spring forth?The Ghosts of Shanghai

Of the 30,000 Jews who found refuge from Hitler in the Chinese port city, only to be expelled by the Communists in 1949, little remains but tombstones, and these are hard to find.Torah and Military Ethics

A wildly controversial book by two Israeli rabbis has been lambasted as racist and an incitement to violence; the first charge is true, the second false.Aid for What?

The U.S. has attempted to train a Palestinian security force only to see it become part of the problem; meanwhile, American tax dollars now flow to a Fatah-Hamas coalition.Digging the Bible’s Bad Guys

Excavations at Goliath-the-giant's hometown of Gath are helping to paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, perennial enemies of the Israelites.Never the Twain Shall Meet?

In the view of an American rabbinical student, the tension between liberalism and Zionism is real, much deeper than many think, and potentially unresolvable.Café Krakow

Café-crawling the former Jewish quarter of Krakow, three artists turn up some tasteful, nice hangouts—and some cringeworthy Jewish-themed kitsch.The Poet’s Poet’s Poet

For Louis Zukofsky, a leading force behind the Objectivist movement, Judaism was a compass to navigate worlds old and new.