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In the Shadow of the Alhambra

Against the backdrop of surveys showing 46 percent of Spaniards holding negative attitudes toward Jews, the city of Granada hosts a Jewish religious figure for the first time in over 500 years.Imagine

In a provocative, hugely entertaining, and compulsively readable "philosophical rampage," the historian Ze'ev Maghen turns the tables on arguments that Judaism is parochial, antiquated, and inert.Where is Israel’s Capital?

In Tel Aviv, to judge from the location of the U.S. embassy. In lately re-emphasizing this refusal to acknowledge reality, President Obama has won the praise of the Palestinian Authority.Chagall at Work

A priceless sketchbook containing two decades' worth of the artist's responses to global and personal experience is up for auction at Sotheby.Foreskin Man

The debate over circumcision in San Francisco is devoid of anti-Semitic overtones. To the contrary: the anti-Semitism is explicit and inescapable.But is It Art?

A radical ultra-Orthodox Jerusalemite is scanning his treasures—20,000 street posters assaulting secular Jews and the state of Israel—for uploading to the country's national library.A Shavuot Enigma

At Mt. Sinai, God gave the Torah to the Israelites encamped in the desert below. Why, then, in an illuminated manuscript from 1296, are the Israelites shown crowded behind a window, inside the mountain? (PDF)B’haalot’kha: Spiritual Authority in Judaism

Is anything touchier in Judaism than the issue of authority?  This week's Torah reading addresses the question of authority head on—and through the person of Moses himself. The answers are unlikely to please either Orthodoxy or Reform Judaism. Identity à la Carte

A generation after the fall of Communism, Jews in Central Europe feel comfortable where they live; though concerned about anti-Semitism, they do not wish to move to Israel.