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Minnesota Fats

Borekas filled with dried Michigan cherries, pumpernickel sprinkled with Iowa sunflower seeds, gefilte fish from Minnesota's 10,000 lakes, and other Jewish foodways of the American heartland.Identity Cleft

While Israeli Jews are fully enveloped in a Jewish identity which embraces religion, culture, education, land, and history, American Jews have a much more limited self-definition.The Land of Oś

The grandson of a Holocaust survivor photographs the town that was home to Auschwitz.Hayei Sarah: This Land is My Land . . .

This weekend, as in years past, thousands of visitors from around the world will spend Shabbat among the Jewish community of Hebron, marking the occasion of the liturgical reading of Abraham's purchase of me'arat ha-makhpelah, the "double cave," as Sarah's burial vault.Narrating the Law

A new work of Talmud scholarship challenges the traditional distinction between halakhah and aggadah by identifying an overlapping literary genre: the talmudic legal story.Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set

In the 50's and 60's, the independent Tikva Records cranked out everything from Israeli folk and klezmer to cantorial singing, Catskills comedy, and political spoken word. (With audio)Will Israel Strike Iran?

Video debate on the likelihood of an attack, media reporting on the issue, and the international implications all around.To Be a Montefiore

Alan Montefiore has deployed all of the heavy machinery of analytic philosophy to better understand his illustrious family's view that he ought to be a good Jewish boy.Fraternité

Despite Sarkozy's recent faux pas, Israel has a friend in Paris, and it would be a pity to let interpersonal rifts overshadow France's staunch support where it really matters.