A letter from Isaac Luria.

CSI: blood libel.

The 13th-century rabbis who dared to put secret teachings on paper.

The more we learn, the fewer the surprises.

Memorialized in chronicles and poems.

Tuviah the Healer and Gabriel Felix.

Some Jewish reflections on the popular holiday.

Decrees of Christian emperors and declining knowledge of Hebrew.

The legend of the Kalonymos family.

From Pliny and Josephus to Umberto Eco.

Israel, Babylonia, and Italy.

Who once was.

And the Dutch-Portuguese ex-converts who founded it.

Back to the city of slaughter.