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Poisoning the Young

Muslim religious schools in the UK are using viciously anti-Semitic textbooks from Saudi Arabia. The result: a generation of Muslim students more extreme than their parents.Sudan’s Jews

There are two chapters in the story of the Jews of Sudan. An earlier community was decimated when Jews were forcibly converted to Islam; the modern community was driven to extinction in the last 50 years.Sex and the Rabbinate

A significant number of North American rabbis, in all denominations, are unmarried, navigating largely uncharted (and unspoken-of) territory. The State of the State

Beneath Israel's veneer of start-ups, hi-tech firms, and luxury hotels lies an ailing, unsupervised infrastructure that leaves it woefully unprepared for the next catastrophe.Museum as Muse

The educator and scholar Cyrus Adler (1862-1940) may have been the first to argue for placing Jewish culture on display in modern America—but his vision differed markedly from that of today's curators.Hanukkah in the Gulag

A makeshift hanukkiah and a prisoner's resourcefulness miraculously overcome a camp commander's obduracy. From the author's post-liberation memoir Fear No Evil (1986).Brain Death and Jewish Law

An Orthodox neurosurgeon argues that the classical halakhic definition of death must be revisited—but a recent position paper on brain death is inaccurate and incomplete.WikiFallout

One unmistakable conclusion to draw from WikiLeaks: in the Middle East, Washington's conventional wisdom on foreign policy has been disconnected from reality.