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B’haalot’kha: Like His Likeness

Torah Talk with Michael Carasik This week, the temunah of God makes a surprising and rare appearance. As God lets Aaron and Miriam know, it's one more way that Moses is special. (Click here for source sheet.)  Download | Duration: 00:11:51Eighteenth-Century Aliyah

Two hundred years before modern Zionism, Jews across the Russian empire funded Rabbi Judah Chassid and his 120 followers on their trek from Europe to a new life in the Promised Land.Intellectual Guilt

The spate of attacks on French Jews since the Toulouse massacre flows from not just the anti-Semitism of Arab leaders but its legitimation by the European intelligentsia. Transit of Venus

Three rabbinic responsa to the rare astronomical phenomenon visible today, and what it means for a Copernican—and a Jewish—world view.A Jewish Esperanto?

According to two encyclopedias, out of an estimated 16 million Jews in the world in 1939, 11 million were Yiddish speakers. But that figure doesn't stand up to closer inspection.Missing Mubarak

As Egypt passes sentence on Mubarak, some in Israel are mourning an ally. But Mubarak was no friend of Israel—and the military dictatorship which he led still holds the levers of power.Good Story; Bad History

With its allegations of Allied brutality and Jewish revenge during and after World War II, Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is certainly fashionable. Too bad it isn't accurate.     Not Just Peace

Citing various instances of individual reconciliation, a new book questions the so-called clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. But personal anecdotes are no guide to statecraft.The Macaronic Talmud

The rabbis of the Talmud were not only exposed to Greek, but proficient enough to cunningly manipulate the language with wordplay and puns.