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Within the sprawling library of Jewish mysticism, few puzzles are as compact—and as consequential—as the two Hebrew letters Beit-Lamed (ב״ל). A growing circle of scholars is revisiting a 16th-century teaching from Rabbi

As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in February 2022, Europe’s concert halls, once filled with the soaring strains of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, fell abruptly silent. No more Nutcracker. No more Swan Lake.

It’s a question that has puzzled visitors to Japan for decades, including Professor Chris McMorran of the National University of Singapore, who brings students to Japan each year as part of his

When John Hanning Speke staggered through the sweltering jungle heat of East Africa in July 1858, he was a broken man—ravaged by fever, half-blind, and disheartened. For 18 months, he had searched