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Tazria-M’tzora: Sin and Skin

Leprosy!  (Not.)  Is it caused by sin? (Click here for source sheet.) Download  Defying the Demographers

Demographers have long projected an Arab majority west of the Jordan River.  But, today, Jewish fertility is surging as Arab birth rates collapse.The Path of Most Resistance

It is commonly assumed that European Jews made little effort to resist the Nazis.  But, if we "look for resistance where it was possible to resist," then "we come to a very different conclusion."Hitting the Gas

In addition to giving Israel energy independence for the first time in its history, Israel's maritime natural gas reserves may make it a major gas exporter to Asia over the coming decades.“The Feminist Time Forgot”

Shulamith Firestone rejected her Orthodox upbringing and authoritarian father  to become one of the leaders of late 1960s radical feminism.  But her father's death reduced her to insanity.Was Crucifixion a Jewish Penalty?

Although never enumerated among biblical forms of capital punishment, both Josephus and the Dead Sea Scrolls suggest that during the Hasmonean era, crucifixion was part of Jewish penal legislation.