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Jerusalem: Syndrome or Artichoke?

What do Speaker of the House John Boehner and an ugly root vegetable have in common?The Ralph Branca Story

Though it was unknown to him until recently, the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who in 1951 threw the "shot heard round the world," losing a pennant race to the New York Giants, was born to a Jewish mother.Democracy in the (Tel Aviv) Streets

A protest movement spawned, ironically, by Israel's economic success may do some good—if the Left can be prevented from hijacking it.Evolutionary Torah

A team of scholars has been laboring for a half-century to produce a comprehensive critical edition of the Hebrew Bible; so far, three books have appeared.Returning Home

With economic progress and relative quiet on the West Bank, the mass exodus of Palestinian Christians has slowed; some are coming back.Groupthink and the Sanhedrin

Did the decision-making practices of the ancient Jewish legislative body anticipate modern wisdom on averting conformism and encouraging dissent?Fiddles of Hope

A Tel Aviv restorer specializes in violins that survived the Holocaust; at Auschwitz recently, Shlomo Mintz played one of them for visiting IDF cadets and officers. Raising the Stakes on Jerusalem

Never until now has an American President made an issue of home-building in Jewish neighborhoods established in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war and the city's reunification.Telling It Like It Wasn’t

Twenty years after the notorious anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a former New York Times reporter relates how his paper stubbornly persisted in mischaracterizing the events as a "racial clash."