Behind the headlines, and largely unreported, the basic measures of human well-being have continued to improve in recent ...

By tradition, it will be celebrated for seven days in Israel and for eight days by some Jews in the rest of the world. For ...

But it’s a key that demands everything—devotion, study, the rejection of the animalistic within us, the stubborn will to rise above the detritus of this world. The gentile looked at that key ...

While it's widely acknowledged that the Nazi regime persecuted communists, socialists, anarchists, liberals, and Jewish ...

By tradition, it will be celebrated for seven days in Israel and for eight days by some Jews in the rest of the world. For many Jews ... with no time for dough to rise. Cracker-like matzo is ...

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All across the United States, people are rising up--refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy.

Political theorist Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler came to power. Her life and writings have a chilling ...