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Sitting Shiva for a Word

Only non-Jews could have redefined the quintessentially Yiddish "shtick" to mean what Vice-President Biden had in mind in invoking it.The Coming Storm

It will take energy and luck to deal with the Palestinian initiative at the UN in September; it will take more to manage the situation afterward. (PDF)God’s Army?

Ever since religious Jews began filling leadership positions in the IDF, some have been worrying about potential disloyalty to the state—so far, without reason. Now Playing at a University Near You

The controversy over a cancelled research program at Yale raises the question of why the academic study of anti-Semitism has come so late to the U.S.Morning After

Out of the limelight, post-overthrow Tunisia has made substantive progress toward democratization; but the end is still not in sight.Who Owns Samson Raphael Hirsch?

Both modern Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews have laid claim to the influential 19th-century German rabbi and thinker; the former have the better argument.Toward the Promised Land

Later this year, over 7,000 members of the Bnei Menashe community, which claims descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes, are preparing to emigrate from northeast India to Israel.Include Us In

England's Jewish twenty-somethings may not be found in the community's long-established institutions, religious or secular, but there is nothing apathetic about their engagement with Judaism.