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More Shadow than Light?

An acclaimed exhibition on the achievements of medieval Muslim science is as manipulative as it is illuminating.Rooting for the Home Team

Recent interest in the role of Jews in baseball points to a broader story of "once-marginalized people finding their way into the American mainstream."The Myth of Patriarchy?

From divorce to women's roles to co-ed heders: a historian corrects misconceptions about 19th-century East European Jewry.Poisoning the Young

Muslim religious schools in the UK are using viciously anti-Semitic textbooks from Saudi Arabia. The result: a generation of Muslim students more extreme than their parents.Sudan’s Jews

There are two chapters in the story of the Jews of Sudan. An earlier community was decimated when Jews were forcibly converted to Islam; the modern community was driven to extinction in the last 50 years.Sex and the Rabbinate

A significant number of North American rabbis, in all denominations, are unmarried, navigating largely uncharted (and unspoken-of) territory.The Kabbalist Anarchist

The kibbutz movement and Martin Buber were only two of many exemplars of Jewish leftism influenced by the ideas of Gustav Landauer.Cherchez l’homme

Simone de Beauvoir's affair with the American Jewish novelist Nelson Algren gave her everything she never got from Sartre. Brain Death and Jewish Law

An Orthodox neurosurgeon argues that the classical halakhic definition of death must be revisited—but a recent position paper on brain death is inaccurate and incomplete.