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Palestine Past

Dozens of photos of the people and landscapes of 19th- and early-20th-century Palestine are now available online.Self-Portrait as a Jew

Viewing the introspective work of the painter Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944) on its own, not through the lens of his murder in Auschwitz.Osnat’s Story

How an American teen learned to navigate social isolation, hatred of group tours, love of his host country, and the embrace of an Israeli family and their homely daughter.Intelligence Succession

During the tenure of Meir Dagan, about to step down as director of Mossad, Syria's nuclear weapons program was destroyed Two Popes, One Holocaust

Rather than canonizing the controversial Pius XII, perhaps the Church should be honoring his more courageous predecessor, Pius XI.Foreign Travel

A new internal-tourism initiative brings secular Israelis into an alien society: the neighborhoods and homes of the ultra-Orthodox.No Christmas in Baghdad

Like the Jews before them, Iraq's Christians now confront religious cleansing from their ancient home.Aiding and Abetting

After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans, and Nazi collaborators to a greater extent than previously disclosed.An Albanian First

The small Jewish community in Albania inaugurated its first chief rabbi earlier this week.