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Daybreak: Is the Pope Jewish?
Nuremberg translator dies, a blast in Lebanon, and more in the news
Even Criminals Rest in Peace
What would Jewish law have to say about alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s burial?
Excerpt: Solomon’s Island
The Internet says the Lost Temple of Israel is hidden in the South Pacific. A reporter went to investigate.
Neighborhood Bully
Why the Israel Defense Forces hit Syria—and why they believe that Assad won’t hit back
By Amos Harel
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Dumb and Dumber
By David P. Goldman — How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle EastWhen Berlin Meant Business
By Vox Tablet — Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.The Mideast Crack-Up
By David Samuels — Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab mapThe Other Torah
By Chavie Lieber — A new English translation of the Samaritan Torah offers scholars a different version of the sacred textEd Koch’s Catholic Send-off
By Jonathan R. Cohen — The former mayor, who had a deep relationship with Catholicism, will be memorialized in a Mass at St. Patrick's
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
By Rachel Shukert — You may think you know where this column is going. You’d be wrong.
Who Can Follow These Rules?
By Adam Kirsch — This week’s Talmud reading prompts strikingly contemporary questions about observance and belief
Bar Mitzvahs on the Beach
By Rebecca Meiser — Destination bar and bat mitzvahs take Jewish ceremonies to exotic locations—far from the synagogue back home
The Napkin Artist
By Frances Brent — Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
Dangling Men
By Richard Kreitner — Saul Bellow was a complicated father to his three sons. In a new book, the eldest tries to parse his inheritance.
Helen Keller's Letter to Nazi Germany
By Adam Chandler — In 1933, she attacked book-burning German students
Steimatzky Tells Israelis to Bring a Book to Bed
By Elissa Goldstein — The bookseller's new campaign runs across the genres
How Stephen Hawking Is Wrong
By Liel Leibovitz — Let us count the ways
Cutting Family Ties
By Rebecca Klempner — The cards my Christian paternal grandparents sent me as a child came with small checks—and a hidden agenda
Daybreak: Vandals Tag Home of Women of the Wall Member
By Adam Chandler — Plus an Israeli commission casts doubt about details of an infamous incident
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When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
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