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The Peace Delusion

A "peace initiative" like the one Israel is under pressure to present is likely to be based on a paradigm that simply doesn't work.An Unstill Life

Charlotte Salomon worked feverishly on gouaches that bear witness to her own inner turmoil and to the mounting German horror that eventually claimed her life. (With slideshow)Love and Duty

In the 1920s, a Polish Jewish woman living in China wrote a bestseller that helped Chinese women contend with modernity and Western ideas of love.Passover without Jews

Not only are more and more non-Jews seated at seder tables, but an increasing number of churches have been offering their own versions of the ritual—with their own messages.The Heirs of Nasser

Just like Egypt in the Nasserite uprisings of the 1950s, Iran and Syria today will try to turn the anarchy in the Middle East into a unified anti-Western, anti-Israel campaign.Correcting the Bible

Reunited with the "Crown of Aleppo," the religious community now possesses the textually most perfect Bible in existence. Yet to most it seems only of historical interest. Revolutions and Democracy

On the causes and implications of recent events in the Middle East: A Symposium.The History of Horseradish

Tracing the ritual use of horseradish at the seder, a botanist finds that it parallels the travels and migrations of the Jewish people. (PDF, 1981)The Israeli Jew and the Universal Jew

Two new books address the dilemma of Jewish identity in the modern era, one through the lens of history, the other through the lens of literature.