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Netanyahu Announces a January Election

The Prime Minister has called for an early election because, among other things, an early election is an election he thinks he can win.European Muslims: The Quiet Revolution

It’s the radical Islamists who get the headlines.  But in the background, European Muslims, for the first time in Islamic history, may be developing a locally based Islamic-European identity.A Rough Road from Bukhara to Forest Hills

Less prominent in New York than Jewish immigrants from Russia, Bukharian Jews form a small community in Queens.  Their road to American acculturation hasn’t been easy. Love and Death at Auschwitz

It was decades before the Israeli woman opened the diary written by her first love, who died at Auschwitz.  Now, aged 88, she has done so. Conservative Jews Walk the Intermarriage Tightrope

The rabbi will counsel you, but stay off the bimah.  The synagogue will welcome you warmly—but you can’t actually join.  Intermarriage is here.  Conservative Judaism tries to adjust.  The Middle East’s “Big Men”

"Some months after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, I sat at lunch with the aging Hosni Mubarak . . ."Seventy Years of Soviet Zion

Despite predictions of its demise, Birobidzhan, the autonomous Jewish region in Siberia founded by Stalin, still has a Jewish character and is seeing a rebirth in Jewish culture. Michal of Makhpelah

On October 9th, 1968, 13-year-old Michal Arbel, daughter of the head of the Shin Bet, became the first Jew to enter the Cave of the Patriarchs in 700 years.Philanthropist I and Philanthropist II

While American Jewish philanthropists tend to create new institutions from scratch, the Jewish community also needs people to maintain what we already have.