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Hayei Sarah: This Land is My Land . . .

This weekend, as in years past, thousands of visitors from around the world will spend Shabbat among the Jewish community of Hebron, marking the occasion of the liturgical reading of Abraham's purchase of me'arat ha-makhpelah, the "double cave," as Sarah's burial vault.Narrating the Law

A new work of Talmud scholarship challenges the traditional distinction between halakhah and aggadah by identifying an overlapping literary genre: the talmudic legal story.Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set

In the 50's and 60's, the independent Tikva Records cranked out everything from Israeli folk and klezmer to cantorial singing, Catskills comedy, and political spoken word. (With audio)Will Israel Strike Iran?

Video debate on the likelihood of an attack, media reporting on the issue, and the international implications all around.To Be a Montefiore

Alan Montefiore has deployed all of the heavy machinery of analytic philosophy to better understand his illustrious family's view that he ought to be a good Jewish boy.Fraternité

Despite Sarkozy's recent faux pas, Israel has a friend in Paris, and it would be a pity to let interpersonal rifts overshadow France's staunch support where it really matters.Beyond Bad Faith

Palestinians will never be reached by reason until they are able to get beyond the paralyzing "poetic truth" that they are the perennial victims of an aggressive and racist Israeli nation. When Einstein Met Tagore

It was staged to be a media sensation when "the thinker with the head of a poet" met "the poet with the head of a thinker." But on philosophical matters, the two titans stood poles apart.The Judeo-Christian Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

In this perilous economic climate, we should remember the lesson of the world's first economist, the biblical Joseph: Years of plenty tend to be followed by years of hardship.