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Story of a Vote

Eyewitness accounts of the November 1947 UN vote to partition Mandate Palestine into two states. (Video)Twos and Lids

Decoding the terms of Cockney rhyming slang for Jews.Light on Darkness

A study of Holocaust fiction successfully removes the "Do Not Enter" signs that have been erected around artistic representations of the Holocaust. A Prayer for America

Scant months after the end of World War II, a Thanksgiving Day liturgy was compiled by the rabbi of New York's Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue. (1945, PDF)Free Palestine!

If Palestinians cannot abide a single free-thinking blogger in their midst, can they be free in any meaningful sense of the word?Vayeishev: Judah, Not Reuben

When two figures in the Bible face a similar situation but respond to it differently, pay close attention: there's a lesson in the difference. A few weeks ago, I pointed this out in connection with Abraham and Lot. Another example occurs in the book of I Samuel, where King Saul and King David provide contrasting object lessons in the admitting of fault—in David's case, fault for having a man killed in order to take his wife. Still another occurs in this week's reading, where Reuben and Judah, sons of Jacob, present similarly parallel but morally divergent instances.Life of Bath

An ancient Roman pool has been discovered in Jerusalem's Old City during excavations for a new ritual bath.Pro-Jewish in Indonesia

Only a handful of Jews now live in Indonesia, home of the world's largest Muslim population; but a 62-foot-tall menorah overlooks the city of Manado and Israeli flags fly on taxi stands.Whose Jews?

Out of delicacy, no doubt, a new translation of the Christian Bible sometimes renders the Greek word ioudaioi ("Jews") as "Jewish leaders"; it would have been better to leave the text as is.