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The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Home fires burning

Review: Rise and Shine:

Review: Evita

No need to cry for this lesser Evita

Review: Blood and Gifts

Hounded by past Afghan conflicts

Review: Tiny Kushner

Review: Deathtrap

Review: The Other Guys

Cop spoof is best comedy in a bad year

Interview: Sarah Solemani

How to be jobless and happy (clue: sex helps)

Big in Tehran and Amman, Israel's heavy metal warriors

Orphaned Land's Muslim following.

Interview: Gideon Levy

I criticise because I’m a patriot

Hope for Beirut's Jews as a synagogue is reborn

An embattled community has cause for celebration

Death, a last act of faith

The Yom Kippur prayers recall rabbis who were martyrs - but how far are they a role model?

We don't need to bear the weight of our sins alone

During Yom Kippur, our minds can easily wander away from essence of the day.

Neilah

The overriding theme of Neilah is God's readiness always to accept and forgive all who turn in repentance.

Yom kippur

"For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the Lord" Leviticus 16: 30

A very Jewish book's appeal

After years of being ignored, Howard Jacobson has cracked the Booker with a novel that ought to mystify non-Jews