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On Judaism and Homosexuality

Should Jewish communities treat homosexuals as beyond the pale even in circumstances in which they embrace people who violate the Sabbath or don’t give to charity?  (Transcribed by Dov Karoll)Norway’s Jewish Problem

The far-right Anders Breivik made news with his murderous assault on multiculturalism in 2011.  But Jews are leaving Norway because of pressure from the country’s liberal anti-Zionist elite.Balfour and the Bolsheviks

History remembers 1917 for the Balfour Declaration’s support of Zionism.  But Jews in 1917 were more interested in another event of that same week: the October Revolution.Arendt and the Arabs

Hannah Arendt feared that Zionism would create a “Jewish island in an Arab sea.”  But her Eurocentrism kept her from seeing just how hostile that sea would be. A Brutal Peace

The postwar expulsion of German speakers from Czechoslovakia formed one more chapter in the story of Europe’s incapacity to reconcile the claims of democracy and nationalism.