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Golda Meir

Born in Ukraine and raised in America, she became Israel's first and only female prime minister.

The details of this ill-fated effort to create a two-state solution for Jews and Palestinians.

The unlikely history of a Hasidic melody.

The creation of a Jewish existentialism--and a Jewish state.

The Israeli prime minister was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995.

Modern Hebrew culture made of Hanukkah a celebration of the new, self-reliant Jew.

When the Rosenbergs were charged with spying, American Jews feared an anti-Semitic backlash.

The Bible implies that God's choice of the Jews was random; later traditions made the Jews seem deserving of this privilege.

Today the Bible is chanted in synagogues with an intricate musical system, but the practice began with one man projecting in a marketplace.

Jewish sources are conflicted about what happens after we die.

Amsterdam became a haven for Jewish refugees from the Inquisition.

Provoked by an Egyptian military buildup, Israel fights back.