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Where Have all the Boomers Gone?

Among members of American ethnic and religious groups, Jews tend to be older; fixated on the young, foundations and communal organizations ignore the fifty-and-up cohort at their peril.Lenin’s Jewish Roots

For the first time, Russian museum-goers can view documents confirming longstanding rumors about the Soviet dictator's family background. A Special Bond

The tiny Jewish community of New Delhi is knit together by powerful ties of tradition and solidarity, and by a  spirit of religious accommodation.Arab Apartheid

The true nakba of the 1948 Arab refugees is not their dispossession, a common fate in the 20th century, but the crushing abuse they have suffered at the hands of the Arab states to which they fled.      The New Faces of Religious Zionism

A sector of the Israeli population once relatively uniform has grown both religiously and politically diverse, much more so than is commonly credited.In Lublin, with Ruins

In one Polish city, the restoration of Jewish sites means returning them to what's left of the community, not renovating the buildings or educating anyone about the culture they represent.Paradoxes of Commitment

In Judaism, marriage bonds are like tefillin: restrictive and confining, liberating and redemptive.Ill Winds of Change

The approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace enunciated by President Obama on May 19 undermines his own message to the Arab peoples and can result in a dangerous rift between Jerusalem and Washington.   (Benjamin Netanyahu responds to the President.[Video])  Assad Alone

His friends in the extremist "resistance" camp are joining his opponents in the "moderate" camp to denounce and abandon the Syrian dictator.