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Never Lost, Case Closed

An isolated crypto-Jewish community in northern Portugal has somehow retained its genetic identity for centuries.Radicalization 101

Outside Waziristan, the U.K.'s universities offer the most conducive environment an Islamic extremist could wish to inhabit.My God, Elohai

Discovering tapes of his Tunisian grandfather's self-performed songs of religious devotion, an Israeli singer and band leader enters into a haunting musical dialogue with tradition.What Bothered the Censor

How a 17th-century Christian censor's discomfort with the eternity of the Torah found its way into standard editions of the Talmud.A Breakthrough Discovery

The deciphering of the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered—from the tenth century B.C.E.—also supplies the earliest written evidence of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.Still Redundant After all these Years

Exactly six decades ago, a report on Jewish organizational life in the U.S. found "duplication, excessive competition, . . . and actual conflict." All still there today—but is this an altogether bad thing?One and the Same?

Ultra-Orthodoxy and radical secularism are not so much polar opposites as two sides of the same coin; the good news is that both are doomed to extinction.In Poland, the Once Unthinkable Thrives

A Jewish intellectual and former Solidarity activist marvels at a small but miraculously renewed community.Can Science Explain Religion?

A new book tries to explain the history of Western religion by way of game theory and evolutionary psychology. The author makes important moral points; but the points are completely independent of the science, and even work against it.