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A New Leaf?

The Obama administration is finally free to test whether Israeli and Palestinian leaderships are closer to agreement on the core issues than is commonly recognized.Does a Palestinian State Mean War?

A unilaterally declared "two-state solution" may be in the offing, but that hardly means peace will follow. The Show Went On

A new book on cultural and artistic life in wartime Paris undermines the still-widespread belief that the "true France" never collaborated with the Nazis.More Shadow than Light?

An acclaimed exhibition on the achievements of medieval Muslim science is as manipulative as it is illuminating.Rooting for the Home Team

Recent interest in the role of Jews in baseball points to a broader story of "once-marginalized people finding their way into the American mainstream."The Myth of Patriarchy?

From divorce to women's roles to co-ed heders: a historian corrects misconceptions about 19th-century East European Jewry.Poisoning the Young

Muslim religious schools in the UK are using viciously anti-Semitic textbooks from Saudi Arabia. The result: a generation of Muslim students more extreme than their parents.Sudan’s Jews

There are two chapters in the story of the Jews of Sudan. An earlier community was decimated when Jews were forcibly converted to Islam; the modern community was driven to extinction in the last 50 years.Sex and the Rabbinate

A significant number of North American rabbis, in all denominations, are unmarried, navigating largely uncharted (and unspoken-of) territory.