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Telling Their Own Stories

A collection of Jewish folktales from Arab lands sheds light on the particularities, and the universality, of the genre.I Married a Jew

In 1939, a German-American woman was moved "to tell the world how it really is between a Christian and a Jew, since the world is evidently so intensely interested."Where are the Jewish Refugees?

The wretched survivors of Hitler and of Arab cruelty were taken in by their fellow Jews and helped to get back on their feet; imagine if, like the Palestinians, they had been kept stateless for generations.Media Madness

These are dangerous times for Israel. The TV personality Glenn Beck has undertaken to combat the threat. For this, the columnist Dana Milbank has accused him of anti-Semitism.Swapping Land

The fact that an idea was discussed in the past but never incorporated into any signed agreement does not, pace President Obama, make it part of the diplomatic agenda.No Human Rights for Jews?

Speaking in May 2009 to the Freedom Forum in Oslo, the indomitable Elena Bonner, who has died at eighty-eight, denounced the blatant anti-Semitism of her fellow human-rights activists.The Tombs Speak

At the Roman-era burial site of Beit Sh'arim, messages in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, incised into stone coffins, reflect the inner world of an ancient Jewish community. Torah with an Open Mind

As against religious fundamentalists and doctrinaire secularists alike, an Orthodox literary scholar proposes an engaged connectedness with Jewish sources. (Interview by Jeffrey Goldberg.)