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Shavuot: Receptivity is All

A holiday characterized by no specific ritual act, Shavuot recapitulates the Israelites' embrace of the Torah at Sinai in a mood of perfect acceptance.Shavuot: Covenant and Meaning

Who better exemplifies the contract between God and the Jews: the Abraham willing to sacrifice his son Isaac, or the Abraham empowered by God to argue with Him?Captivated by the Scrolls

In a late-life summing up, the prolific Oxford scholar Geza Vermes has published a comprehensive look at "the miraculous discovery and true significance" of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community that produced them.The Banality of Anti-Semitism

Steeling oneself against an evil that presents itself with an ordinary, innocuous face.Radical Islam and Western Liberals

In his new study of contemporary political morality, Paul Berman exposes the repudiation by liberal intellectuals of liberal values and ideals. Way West

According to a new, richly documented history of Jewish settlement along the Pacific coast, the frontier spirit created something unique in American Jewish experience.Israel’s Elites

Thanks to the ethos of Zionism, the country's business, political, and defense elites are integrated; its anti-Zionist elite, by contrast, is almost entirely Ashkenazi.Unmasking Tariq Ramadan, and Ourselves

When it comes to honesty and clarity, indispensable liberal virtues, Arabs can derive much benefit from reading Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals. (By the opinion editor of the Beirut Daily Star.)