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Noam Gershony’s Incredible Gold

Mossad’s Mistake

Swords Into Plowshares

The owner of a Judaica auction house presents striking hanukkiot from Europe and India.  There is also one from Israel, made from a rifle stock and dedicated by Yitzhak Rabin. Magnitizdat

The samizdat literature that helped undermine the Soviet Union had a musical counterpart: bootlegged prison songs from the gulag, some mythologizing the Jewish gangsters of Odessa.More from the Start-up Nation

We need disease-resistant plants, but genetically modifying them is dangerous.  Now, an Israeli biotech company has a treatment that protects plants while leaving them genetically intact.Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

Refugee scholar and political economist Albert Hirschman, who died this week, taught that consumers must do more than vote with their feet if they want a civil society.Hanukkah Stats

It had to happen: economists have subjected Hanukkah to regression analysis to determine whether or not the holiday is simply a Jewish Christmas. (2009)