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Last Resort

As Israel has demonstrated its ability to overcome military aggression against it, its enemies have chosen another method of attack.A Living, Humming Instrument

The great poet of cultural Zionism, Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873–1934), also gave voice to the predicament of loving religious Judaism while violating its norms.Cold Front

Iceland has an ignoble history of anti-Semitism, and its current left-wing government is exacerbating matters. Neither Jew Nor Greek

A novelistic account of Brother Daniel, a notorious Jewish-born convert to Christianity, embraces the dissolution of distinctions—not only between Christians and Jews, but between murderers and victims.UNESCO’s Revisionism

Mired in anti-Jewish prejudice, the UN's cultural body classifies Rachel's tomb and Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs as mosques—and the great Jewish scholar and philosopher Maimonides as a Muslim.Struggling to Survive

From Butte (Montana) to Paducah (Kentucky) to Sumter (North Carolina), Jewish life is on the wane while communities elsewhere in the same states thrive.My Australia

Through the life of a young boy raised as a Polish Catholic, a new film explores the postwar generation in Europe and its relation to Jews and (sometimes hidden) Jewish identity.Mattot: The Wrong Side of the River

by Michael Carasik "The farmer and the cowman should be friends," advises the song, but they generally aren't.  This week's portion suggests this was the case even in ancient Israel.  Earlier in the book of Numbers we have seen challenges to the leadership of Moses, from Korah and even from his own siblings, Miriam and Aaron.  Now, a rift that goes right through the people is exposed.