Baseball Chapel Grand Slam I was delighted to read Karin Tanabe’s October/November cover story on baseball and religion, “Is the

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The author of mystery novels such as Devil in a Blue Dress talks about his Jewish and black heritage, why he invents black fictional heroes and his controversial belief that Jews are not white. ...
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Why Myla Goldberg adores writer Bruno Schulz ...
The overtrained and underemployed among Israel’s Arabs long for a good job—and equal opportunities­. After decades of economic inequality, Israelis—Jewish and Arab—are working together to crack the glass. ...
These ancient laws, long central to our way of life, have become a divisive symbol. Do they still matter? Or is it time for an upgrade? A range of American thinkers­ speak up, and be warned—they don’t agree on much. (See related stories on pages 21 and 24.) ...
Houda Nonoo, the ambassador to the United States from Sunni-ruled Bahrain, is a Jewish woman. She’s a symbol of the tiny island kingdom’s tolerance and multiculturalism at a time when Shiite demonstrators are demanding economic and political reforms. ...