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Modernity’s Price in the Middle East

"In the pre-modern Middle East,” says Lewis,” there were many institutions in which power arose not from above but from within.  All that was destroyed by modernization." (Video)Nazis Among Us

Every year the Simon Wiesenthal Center publishes a report on war criminals apprehended and at large.  "It is still possible," says its director, "to bring the perpetrators to justice."Did Miriam Sing?

Because Miriam sang at the Red Sea, say some, it cannot be forbidden by halakhah for men to hear women’s voices in song.  But did Miriam really sing? Metropolis of Death

Historian Otto Dov Kulka has always separated his research on the Holocaust from his own experience at Auschwitz.  But his latest book combines the two—to extraordinary effect. Refreshing Tu Bishvat

"Diasporic Jewish existence is like a dried fruit: flavor and freshness are sacrificed in the interest of durability and portability."Manna From Heaven?

Are miracles supernatural or naturalistic phenomena?  Maimonides seems to give contradictory answers—particularly on the subject of manna.Revisionist Rabbis

A new book argues that the Mishnah's descriptions of Temple rituals serve to "claim authority for the rabbis," by portraying proto-rabbinic decisors as the arbiters of Temple practice. Israel’s Approaching Austerity

Yesh Atid's opposition to raising taxes on the middle class presages cuts to welfare, public sector salaries—and the defense budget.