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How Much Do Rabbis Earn?

A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar. Who buys the drinks?A Passage to India

According to legend, the Jews of Parur were so rich and proud that they offered incense at a public altar—and because of this act of hubris, the synagogue congregation was stricken with the plague.Land of the Rising Zun

It was a stray reference to Kafka's obsession with Yiddish theater that started Kazuo Ueda down the path that led to his creation of an implausible opus: the world's first Yiddish-Japanese dictionary.How Fruitful?

By funding IVF for women in their fifties and now requiring women who want to give birth at home to prove their sanity, is Israel taking its involvement in procreation a little too far?A Different Look at Day School Data

Without the right perspective, it's easy to misread the non-Orthodox day school enrollment figures and miss the larger significance of the trends they portend.Who’s on First?

So-called progressives should stop mimicking the far Right and refrain from using terms like "Israel-firster" that question the allegiance of their fellow Americans.Literature for Litvaks

A newly-translated volume of stories gives voice to an anti-Hasidic point of view—in some stories more subtly than in others.Talking Security, Thinking Demographics

Israel's Supreme Court is discussing the security implications of immigration law without explicitly addressing the demographic implications. That will have to change.Arendt in Jerusalem

With their monumental errors of political and moral judgment, Hannah Arendt's writings on Zionism, Israel, and the Holocaust have metastasized into a destructive legacy.Trust

The Israeli Chief Rabbinate requires documents proving the Jewishness of one's mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother when applying for marriage. Is this really Jewish law?