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All About the Benjamins

Sustained financially by his friend Gershom Scholem for much of his life, the revolutionary Marxist Walter Benjamin has posthumously become a commercial success.Israel’s New Academic Diversity

The opposition of Israel’s academic establishment to Ariel University is less about its location than the fact that Ariel threatens the Left’s hegemony over higher education.The Visionary

The true scope of businessman and philanthropist Sami Rohr’s charity is still not fully known, and perhaps may never be.eShabbat?

“I understand melakhah to be about transforming material.  [An e-reader] tracks usage . . . and therefore involves a transformation of material reality.” (Interview by Jason Miller)The Genetic Map of the Jewish African Diaspora

Genome-wide analysis of Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Djerban, and Libyan Jews demonstrates a shared genetic history and supports the historical record of the Sephardic world.Spy vs. Spy

While the American press remains outraged at Jonathan Pollard’s spying on the U.S. for Israel, the Jewish state is crawling with American spies—and this is normal, routine, and implicitly accepted by both sides.