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The United Nations Partition Plan of 1947

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

Hava Nagila’s Long, Strange Trip

The unlikely history of a Hasidic melody.

Martin Buber

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

Who Was Yitzhak Rabin?

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

A Zionist Hanukkah

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

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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

Traditional Views of Jewish Chosenness

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

Cantillation: Chanting, or Leyning, the Bible

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

Heaven and Hell in Jewish Tradition

Jewish sources are conflicted about what happens after we die.

Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam

Amsterdam became a haven for Jewish refugees from the Inquisition.

The Six-Day War

Provoked by an Egyptian military buildup, Israel fights back.

The Jewish View of Sin

Each person has the inclination to do both good and bad.

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