Jonah, the Tower of Babel, and Noah’s ark.

Redrawing the map would just repeat the mistakes of the past.

Contrary to what scholars have claimed, the camels in Genesis are not anachronistic.

When the kings of Judah were vassals of Assyria.

Roasting eggplants proved more dangerous than wars.

Boats in Beersheba.

The Jewish graveyards of Cape Verde.

Projecting fantasies of power.

The mausoleum of the Ḥatam Sofer.

At the urging of German Jewish leaders.

Friedrich and Pauline Kellner.

From the 1780s to World War II.

Making socialism work—to a degree.