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The Way to Civilization

. . . is through the stomach, argues the new Encyclopedia of Jewish Food.Hearing it Every Which Way

Elijah (1846), an oratorio by the baptized Felix Mendelssohn, has been interpreted as evincing Christian sentiments, Jewish sentiments, both, and neither.Blood Brothers

Hamas and Iran, the one Sunni, the other Shiite, share the aim of a revived caliphate; therefore, argues the "moderate" director-general of Hamas's foreign ministry, they should form a true religio-political alliance.The Man Who Saved Western Civilization

A film born of historian Martin Gilbert's Churchill and the Jews documents the wartime leader's early, heroic, lonely, and uncompromising stance against Hitler.Self-Appointed Prophets, Self-Hating Clowns

A serendipitous encounter turns into an extended correspondence between France's moralist philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and its anti-moralist novelist Michel Houellebecq; neither one emerges whole.Vayeitzei: The First Israelite

This week's reading throws us directly into the meandering stories of Jacob, grandson of Abraham, the last and most defining of Israel's patriarchs. The great 19th-century commentator Samson Raphael Hirsch once wrote that, as an archetype, the figure of Jacob embodies the diverse qualities of his twelve sons, who gave their names to the Israelite tribes. The kingly wisdom of Judah, the dedication of Levi, the scrappy resourcefulness of Joseph: in later generations, each tribe could see Jacob as its special forefather.Who is Buried in Rachel’s Tomb?

UNESCO's claim that the sacred Jewish site is a mosque is preposterous on its face and ignores voluminous evidence and testimony, including in Muslim tradition, to the contrary.“Underground” Art Discovered Underground

During subway construction in the heart of Berlin, workers found eleven sculptures that had been classified by the Nazis as "degenerate." How did they get there?