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Pro-Israel Nation

As yet another survey confirms, the American people strongly support the state of Israel, and want their elected representatives to do so as well.Kosher Allure

Why are small rural colleges—even those without large Jewish enrollments—building elaborate Hillel houses with kosher cafes?Sticking to the Script

Like almost every other movie about "the conflict," the new documentary Budrus misrepresents the essential facts—the better to gain money, critical acclaim, and festival screenings.Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh

Almost fifty years on, the recordings of the comic singer Allan Sherman, unlikely mass hits of the early 1960s, continue to sell and sell. Lekh L’kha: The Patriarch’s Perils

This week's reading offers a new sort of narrative. Behind us are the laconic, overtly symbolic, context-free tales of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, and the Tower of Babel. Now, with the stories of Abraham, we get for the first time a kind of biographical sketch, a whole series of episodes spanning many chapters and forming a coherent portrait of a life.The Chabad Paradox

By the one standard that it has set itself, what is possibly the most successful Jewish religious movement of the late 20th century has failed. (From the Fall issue, out this week.)Missing in Academic Action

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the study of Hebrew literature is in drastic decline, and so is the study of the humanities in general.Dishonorable

In awarding an honorary Oscar to the French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, Hollywood's Motion Picture Academy will be celebrating a notoriously vocal anti-Semite.Sigd!

Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Operation Moses, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday is celebrated by a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem.