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We Failed Zuckerberg

A Reform rabbi argues that his movement's pluralistic theology is to blame for the detachment of young Jews from their faith.Wagner the Dog

What does it say about Jewish sensibilities that a month after Tel Aviv University hosted a "Nakba Day" commemoration, it judged a concert of Wagner's music to be beyond the pale?Never on Saturday

"During the Katrina disaster, President Bush declared to his senior staff that there would be no weekend . . . As a Sabbath observer, I wondered what to do."Israelis, Learn Arabic!

Though tiny Israel is surrounded by more than 200 million Arabic speakers, its government has failed to treat Arabic studies with the appropriate seriousness.Fleshpots and Ice Cream Pints

From olim, one hears an American—or is it an atavistic?—yearning for quality and convenience.     Soccer in the Shoah

Before Euro 2012 began in Poland and Ukraine, the national soccer teams visited the concentration camps. But few know that soccer was one of the limited leisure activities permitted to the inmates.Reading and Religion

The late Ray Bradbury's dystopian vision of a world without books in Farenheit 451 shows that there is no substitute for reading as moral education—and as a route to spiritual maturity.     Talmud and Technology

Although the challenges posed by the Internet are serious, Jews have long disputed how to deal with new technology—and faced similar dilemmas with the printing press.A Stanza of One’s Own

In the nineteenth century, visitors began to appear in Trieste, Italy, to ascertain whether or not a woman was in fact producing the Hebrew verses published under the name "Rachel Morpurgo."The Benefactors of Breslau

A new book cataloging Jewish welfare institutions in Breslau, Germany (now Poland) shows how philanthropy was central to the cultural exchange that followed the Emancipation.