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In the Shadow of the Alhambra

Against the backdrop of surveys showing 46 percent of Spaniards holding negative attitudes toward Jews, the city of Granada hosts a Jewish religious figure for the first time in over 500 years.Imagine

In a provocative, hugely entertaining, and compulsively readable "philosophical rampage," the historian Ze'ev Maghen turns the tables on arguments that Judaism is parochial, antiquated, and inert.Beneath Black Hats and Shtreimels

With some noteworthy results, American movies and television are beginning to present Hasidim not as caricatures but as actual individuals; still, there's a long way to go. The Game Changer

Development of Israel's immense energy resources will turn the country into a major exporter, helping to reverse the West's dependence on OPEC and the need to appease Middle Eastern regimes.A Belmont Backstory

In the 1869 Belmont Stakes, named after the Jewish financier August Belmont, the jockey and trainer Jacob Pincus—remembered after his death as "this matchless Jew"—made racing history.A Shavuot Enigma

At Mt. Sinai, God gave the Torah to the Israelites encamped in the desert below. Why, then, in an illuminated manuscript from 1296, are the Israelites shown crowded behind a window, inside the mountain? (PDF)B’haalot’kha: Spiritual Authority in Judaism

Is anything touchier in Judaism than the issue of authority?  This week's Torah reading addresses the question of authority head on—and through the person of Moses himself. The answers are unlikely to please either Orthodoxy or Reform Judaism. Where is Israel’s Capital?

In Tel Aviv, to judge from the location of the U.S. embassy. In lately re-emphasizing this refusal to acknowledge reality, President Obama has won the praise of the Palestinian Authority.