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Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

The funeral of Pope Francis captures a fundamental visual and ideological tension within Catholicism.

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It is in the interests of Israelis to become a discrete and secure state with fixed and recognized borders, next to another ...

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