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The Irish Rover

John Patrick Cooper was a hard-drinking soldier with a big heart who deserted British forces to fight with the Jews during Israel's War of Independence, and stayed on.The Scholar Who Came to Dinner

Visiting scholars have become a regular feature of American congregational life; is the educational experience worth it, either to them or to the synagogue-goers?Abolish UNRWA

The UN agency ostensibly devoted to the welfare of Palestinian refugees is an incubator of revanchism and terrorism; dismantling it is the first step toward creating the conditions for a viable peace process. Mission Creep

The newly launched Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University already shows signs of turning into a platform for an anti-Israel agenda.A Yeshiva Boy’s Christmas

How one Jew learned to stop worrying and love the American Christmas season.Uprooting Beirut

As Beirut's largest synagogue undergoes a massive government-funded facelift, the neighborhood's last Jew has been evicted from her home. (With photos)Kafka Is the Rage

A slew of new books claiming to burst the myths surrounding Franz Kafka engage in quite a bit of myth-building themselves.Rent Rants

How to respond to a rabbinic manifesto in Israel prohibiting the rent or sale of apartments to non-Jews.Under a Cruel Star

Heda Margolius-Kovaly, resilient survivor of both Nazism and Communism, author of an extraordinary 20th-century memoir, has died at the age of ninety-one.