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Map Quest
For a new Torah cycle, stories inspired by the weekly parasha. This week: a Nairobi slum, and the power of making the world known.
Bob Dylan, New GPS Voice
One problem: No directions home
The Mideast Crack-Up
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
The Napkin Artist
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
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Hannah Arendt, Guilty Pleasure
By J. Hoberman — Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and MossadA Growing Fear in France
By Clémence Boulouque — As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar testJohn Kerry’s Silly Play
By Lee Smith — The secretary of state prattles about imaginary treaties while the Arab world is engulfed by a Sunni-Shia civil warHappy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger
By Gil Troy — The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90Dumb and Dumber
By David P. Goldman — How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle East
Religious Labor
The Mideast Crack-Up
Our Arrested Development
Glenn Greenwald Terrorizes Logic
Go Superfreak!
New York Rabbi’s Awful Award
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
When Berlin Meant Business
A Memorial Day of Hope
Looking for Rabbi Versed in Dark Talmudic Arts
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.


