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Anarchy in Sinai

Despite the Egyptian army’s campaign to impose order in the Sinai peninsula, last week's missile attacks on Eilat demonstrate that the area remains "for all intents and purposes a war zone."Blue-Collar Haredim

In 1979, 90 percent of haredi men in Israel were employed; by 2011, that figure had fallen to under 50 percent.  But now the trend is starting to move in the other direction.Believe It or Not

"The rabbis say, 'From doing something for the wrong reason one can come to do it for the right one.'  They didn’t set a time limit."“How the Mighty Have Fallen!”

Marc-Antoine Charpentier's opera David et Jonathas, now playing in Brooklyn, minimizes the religious elements of the biblical narrative to turn the fall of Saul's dynasty into a tragedy.Liberating Israel’s Economy

Israel’s alliance between government and big business has long benefited a select few at the expense of the middle class.  The current government has a chance to break the monopolies.Lessons in Intermarriage

The Mormon Church prohibits intermarriage, but still succeeds in welcoming and converting non-member spouses.  Can Jews learn something from Mormons?Lessons in Counterterrorism

"Israelis have figured out how to live with this contradiction: Something terrible could happen at any moment and there's no reason to let fear dictate how you live."Jew in a Box

Is an exhibit at Berlin's Jewish Museum featuring a Jew sitting in a glass box, to answer visitors' questions, useful pedagogy, or "pathetic and useless"?Shalom Bollywood

With Hindu and Muslim actresses unwilling to appear onstage, producers turned to dancers from India's tiny Jewish community—and launched Bollywood in the process.The Virtue of Repugnance

"As pain is to the body so repugnance is to the soul," says bioethicist Leon Kass.  "Repugnance is some kind of wake-up call that there is something untoward going on and attention must be paid."