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Life Fugues

A well-known concert pianist, deported at age thirty-nine to Theresienstadt, Alice Sommer Herz is now, at one-hundred-six, the oldest living Holocaust survivor. (Video)Toldot: Why Can’t Esau be More like Jacob?

Rebecca had a difficult pregnancy. "The children agitated within her, causing her to exclaim: If this is so, wherefore am I? So she went to inquire of God" (Genesis 25:22). Talmudic legend supplies the cause of the agitation: whenever she passed by an idolatrous temple, Esau would stir in her womb; whenever she passed by a study hall for Torah, Jacob would rouse himself. As the biblical text informs us, she learned from God that the twins she was carrying would become antagonists until, ultimately, the elder would come to serve the younger.Sin City on the Sea

A "truly diverse 21st-century Mediterranean hub," Tel Aviv ranks third among the world's top cities on the popular Lonely Planet website.Boomtown

A mass wedding of 47 couples in Nablus marks the latest step toward rebranding the city as a model of stability in the West Bank. The Crooked Finger of Anti-Semitism

A hatred so protean, resilient, and politically useful may never be entirely expunged; but that does not mean it is invulnerable.Escape Artist

A New York exhibit is devoted to Erich Weiss, the rabbi's son who turned everyday objects into magical displays, and himself into the world's most famous magician.The Morocco-Israel Standoff

Morocco is a seismograph for Israel's standing in the Arab world. Currently, it's pretty low.Outmastering James

Cynthia Ozick's new novel, Foreign Bodies, complements and elevates the moral and political complexities of Henry James's The Ambassadors, while taking on a fervid emotional life of its own.Vargas Llosa and the Israel Question

The newest Nobel Laureate in Literature dissents politically from his left-leaning peers, but his uninformed and prejudiced view of Netanyahu prevents him from seeing the Middle East straight. (Scroll down for English.)