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Misunderstanding Midrash

Maimonides wrote that those who take the Midrash literally "destroy the Torah’s glory and darken its brilliance," but many Orthodox teachers today do just that.A Partridge Among the Pigeons

Conservationists have ignored the poor Philby's Partridge, a Yemenite bird on the brink of extinction.  But an American rabbi is working to save it—because it might be kosher.Rehabilitating Herod

"He’s notoriously known as the bad guy," says the curator of the Israel Museum's vast new exhibit on King Herod.  "But this man was a riddle." How Ike Screwed Up Suez

Defense Department nominee Chuck Hagel says he admires President Eisenhower’s handling of the Suez crisis.  But Eisenhower looked back on Suez as his biggest foreign policy mistake.Saving Aramaic

Aramaic, the language of the Talmud, is dying as a spoken language.  So, Cambridge professor Geoffrey Khan is racing from Tblisi to Chicago to document every dialect.Keeping the Campfires Burning

Remember the joys of Jewish summer camp? Foundations think that Jewish camping is critical to Jewish identity, and they’re increasing subsidies to keep it affordable.