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Korah: A Tribal Story

Numbers always prefers one of the two Hebrew words for tribe — except in chapter 17, where it uses that word quite differently. We'll continue the exploration that we began during Parshat B'midbar. (Click here for source sheet.)  Download | Duration: 00:10:51The Maturation of Etgar Keret

While other Israeli authors write about the country's political or social problems, Etgar Keret focuses on the futility of the human condition. Israel just brings that condition into stark relief.       Public Enemy

An admirer of Qaddafi and Mugabe and an old-school anti-Semite, Charles Barron is an unlikely choice for a New York congressman. But low turnout in the Democratic primary could make him just that.Anglo-Jewry: A Contradiction in Terms?

If Jews are, in the words of literary critic Leslie Fiedler, the natural voice of modern America, Jewish writers in Britain remain the voice of the permanent counter-culture.The Student of Sadism

Although many balked at her rejection of the notion of evil, Gitta Sereny's openness with the Nazi war criminals she interviewed led them to tell her things that they would never tell anyone else.“Rabbi, do we Jews believe in reincarnation?”

"Knowing full well that much of Kabbalah, philosophy, and even Midrash does accept the notion of reincarnation, I tried to muster a definitive 'No!'"  Return to Vienna

Jews who grew up in cosmopolitan pre-war Vienna came back after the war to find themselves strangers at home. Yet Austria's capital still fascinates Jewish writers.               Keep Religion out of Israeli Adoptions

When conversion becomes a condition for adoption, the process is easily distorted—by pressures on rabbinical conversion court judges and prospective parents.    Romancing the Rosenbergs

When it comes to anti-American spies like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed fifty-nine years ago today, technical guilt may now be acknowledged but, for the most part, moral guilt is not.