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Before Marx Became Marxist

"The man who would write the Communist Manifesto just five years later was advocating the use of the army to suppress a communist workers' uprising!" The Outreach Revolution

The gap between Orthodox  and non-Orthodox Jews in America is supposed to be widening.  But Orthodox outreach is increasing contact—and invigorating non-Orthodox communities.Secularizing Israel

Since the early 1990s, secular Israelis have gained new freedoms from religious authority—even as the country has become more religious.Education, Education, Education

"The literacy of the Jewish people, coupled with a set of contract-enforcement institutions, gave the Jews a comparative advantage in occupations such as crafts, trade, and moneylending."A Sephardic Agnon

"Where are the wordplays of the Sephardic kabbalists, the homiletics of the Aleppo scholars, the halakhic terminology of Moroccan rabbis?" wondered author Haim Sabato. "Who will sketch their profiles, in their language?"Living in Anne Frank’s Shadow

"Otto would talk continuously about Anne, and I got to know her," recalls Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's stepsister.  "It was his obsession, the reason for existence."