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Defining Religious Liberty Down

"If you want to fine Catholic hospitals for following Catholic teaching, or prevent Jewish parents from circumcising their sons, or ban Chick-fil-A in Boston, then don’t tell religious people that you respect our freedoms."Josephus: Traitor or Victim?

While Jews have sometimes viewed Josephus as disloyal, the Talmud offers no opinion on the general who surrendered to the Romans—perhaps because suicide would have been halakhically worse than defection. IOU, IOC

Thanking the Olympic Committee for its decision not to commemorate the PLO's 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes, the Palestinian Authority wrote that "sports is a bridge for . . . peace between peoples."Raising Hellman

Lillian Hellman was called a Stalinist, a liar, a self-hating Jew, “the Ancient Mariner in drag,” a woman who “judged the Soviet Union in terms of how well it observed her comfort.”  Was she just misunderstood? Another Mormon Trail

A century before Romney’s visit to Jerusalem, a Utah Mormon missionary and future senator was there—and thirty years later, played a key role in saving Jewish lives in Nazi Europe.