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Lion-Eater of Judah
The British mule rider who battled lions and helped birth the Jewish State.
Who Let There Be Light?
Is there a hidden story behind our public miracle?
The Scroll of Antiochus?
The almost biblical book of Hanukkah
Do I Have a Future in Australia?
Our government has failed to keep Jews safe.
Meet the Parents
When Stiller met Meara
Is Anything Illuminated?
A new memoir asks what, if anything, we get from visiting the lands of our ancestors.
Il Duce and the Jews
An escape from Fascist Italy, one bag at a time.
Resistance and Persistence
Radical mothers, disappeared children, and heroic grandmothers.
Rereading Operation Shylock at Philip Roth’s Grave
Of a doppelgänger, bad Diasporism, “Antisemites Anonymous,” and penile implants . . .
Everybody Loves Dreyfus
It is hard to make an antisemite a sympathetic character, but a recent film by Roman Polanski does just that.