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What Got into the Scots?

Scotland once prided itself on being the only European country with no history of anti-Semitism. Times have changed.A Forgotten Diaspora

Little-known Portuguese Jewish outposts in western Africa in the late-16th and early-17th centuries maintained lively trade relations with places as distant as Amsterdam, Morocco, and Brazil.What of the Night?

The Shomrim (Watchmen) societies of Brooklyn patrol the streets of hasidic neighborhoods, protecting residents and functioning as intermediaries with the New York police department.  The Year that Changed the World

In 1979, Islamists grabbed the Middle East, and the world, by the throat. They haven't let go since.Between the Lines

An in-depth report on life in the Jewish settlements of the West Bank, and the people who live it.Russia’s Jewish Spring

The opening of a Jewish-studies department at St. Petersburg State University marks a quiet triumph for Jewish academic, cultural, and religious life in Russia. A Hand in Friendship

In a bold statement, the Orthodox rabbi Shlomo Riskin has called for strengthening the Jewish relationship with Christians and Christianity: "we will find far more which unites us than divides us."Cities of Jewish Success

From Bialystok in the east to Worms in the west, the story of great European centers of Jewish civilization is one of tremendous achievement followed, sooner or later, by crushing tragedy.An Israeli Nightingale

Shalev Menashe, a boy soprano, rehearses an aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute and, on tour in Poland with the Raanana Symphony, sings "A Ray of Light" by Koby Oshrat. (Video)