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By Faith Alone

The late Rabbi Yehuda Amital was an influential Israeli educator, instrumental in integrating yeshiva study with military service, and an opponent of rabbis' setting public policy.Southern Belle

Is beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, the birthplace of Reform Judaism in North America, about to experience a resurgence of Jewish residents and to become again a center of American Jewish life? Religious Unfreedom

A new global survey shows increasing hostility to religious practice–with Jews, at less than one percent of the globe's population, experiencing restrictions or harassment in 75 countries.A Devil’s Diaries

Joseph Mengele's post-Holocaust diaries, recently auctioned off and feared to have fallen into neo-Nazi hands, were actually bought by a son of survivors ready to loan them to Yad Vashem.Why Study Talmud?

An important question, to which a collection of entertaining personal testimonies by contemporary talmudists repeatedly yields a common answer: for the joy of it.Bound by Basketball

On the close relationship between an aspiring Modern Orthodox rabbi and an NBA rookie.Nuisance Diplomacy

After many decades of being excluded from most history books and Holocaust museums, the 1940's rescue activists known collectively as the Bergson Group are finally receiving the recognition they deserve. Syria’s Crackdown

The catastrophic assaults of Syria's Alawite ruling minority conform to fears it has expressed for 75 years of what majority rule would mean for them.