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Religious Unfreedom

A new global survey shows increasing hostility to religious practice–with Jews, at less than one percent of the globe's population, experiencing restrictions or harassment in 75 countries.A Devil’s Diaries

Joseph Mengele's post-Holocaust diaries, recently auctioned off and feared to have fallen into neo-Nazi hands, were actually bought by a son of survivors ready to loan them to Yad Vashem.Why Study Talmud?

An important question, to which a collection of entertaining personal testimonies by contemporary talmudists repeatedly yields a common answer: for the joy of it.Bound by Basketball

On the close relationship between an aspiring Modern Orthodox rabbi and an NBA rookie.Nuisance Diplomacy

After many decades of being excluded from most history books and Holocaust museums, the 1940's rescue activists known collectively as the Bergson Group are finally receiving the recognition they deserve. Syria’s Crackdown

The catastrophic assaults of Syria's Alawite ruling minority conform to fears it has expressed for 75 years of what majority rule would mean for them.The Mendelssohn Enigma

Moses Mendelssohn's public image as the model of the cultured humanitarian Jew was arguably more important than his depiction of Judaism, which found few takers.The Odessa Myth

All serious historical inquiry speaks against the existence of a worldwide secretive escape outfit of leading SS and Gestapo members attempting to establish a "Fourth Reich" in Argentina.The Bahrain Crack-Up

The relative quiet in Bahrain is due less to the phony national unity dialogue that was foisted on the opposition than the fact that there are still hundreds of people being detained by the government.