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Ki Teitzei: Defending Human Dignity

From beginning to end, this week's reading offers a catalog of value-laden statements about how the ancient Israelites were to become a good people.Judaism without God

Fifteen Jewish thinkers weigh in on the question of whether Judaism can exist, or can endure, without a belief in God.A Voice of One’s Own

What makes American Jewish novelists different from other American novelists—and almost instantly recognizable as Jewish? Egypt’s Israel Problem

An Egyptian journalist reports on the recent wave of anti-Israel demonstrations and the virulent attitudes toward the Jewish state on display everywhere in the new Egypt.The Counter-Statists

Among Israel's Jewish critics, some are uninformed and malevolent; others are learned and well-intentioned, but wedded to failed ideas that have long been justly forgotten.Hitting Bedrock

Two-thousand years after Herod's builders laid them, the foundation stones of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem have at last been uncovered.The Arch-Historian

At ninety-five, Bernard Lewis, the commanding scholar who foresaw and warned about the return of Islamic extremism, remains an ardent student of the religion—and of much else.Re-imagining the Unimaginable

At this remove in time, and after so much retelling, is it possible to write a freshly felt, fully absorbing literary treatment of the Holocaust? A Swedish novelist has done it.