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Re-imagining the Unimaginable

At this remove in time, and after so much retelling, is it possible to write a freshly felt, fully absorbing literary treatment of the Holocaust? A Swedish novelist has done it.Where Faith is Weak, Life is Weak

Intermarriage, assimilation, and vulnerability are not the causes but the symptoms of a transcendent malaise affecting a people once aflame with devotion. The Counter-Statists

Among Israel's Jewish critics, some are uninformed and malevolent; others are learned and well-intentioned, but wedded to failed ideas that have long been justly forgotten.Hitting Bedrock

Two-thousand years after Herod's builders laid them, the foundation stones of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem have at last been uncovered.The Arch-Historian

At ninety-five, Bernard Lewis, the commanding scholar who foresaw and warned about the return of Islamic extremism, remains an ardent student of the religion—and of much else.Choose Life, Choose Work

Traditional Jewish sources unequivocally stress the virtue of work and the value of earning a living.  Any movement teaching its children only Torah is a modern aberration.    In Reply

Held responds to Gil Student's critique of his contribution to a new volume on Jewish theology, and the role of Jewish law therein.       An Old Hatred Returns

The demon of anti-Semitism has managed to reenter European life through the back door, in the name not of racism but of anti-racism.