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Quite literally alone in a sea of Islam, one rabbi has found the beginnings of the prophesied reconciliation between Isaac and Ishmael in the largest Muslim country in the world: Indonesia. Rabbi Tovia Singer has had many jobs and titles, but perhaps...

By Nadine Epstein and Rebecca Frankel In the early 1960s, Bob Dylan performed at tiny Greenwich Village folk clubs, acoustic guitar strapped across his compact shoulders, harmonica perched on a metal rack around his slender neck. His chord changes were...

August 21 In History 1165: Birthdate of Philip II Augustus, the French king who first imprisoned his Jewish subjects; then extorted ransom from them before banning them from Paris and its environs. 1321: Jews in France were accused of encouraging lepers...

From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: The Problem With Using the Tax Code to Punish Israeli Settlements J Street and like-minded progressives are campaigning to eliminate U.S. tax exemptions for charitable groups that provide support to Jewish communities...

The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Photo: wikipedia.org. Forty years ago I was invited to participate in a journey to Israel that transformed my life. Ironically, it was sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, which had once been resolute in...