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The Counter-Statists

Among Israel's Jewish critics, some are uninformed and malevolent; others are learned and well-intentioned, but wedded to failed ideas that have long been justly forgotten.Where Faith is Weak, Life is Weak

Intermarriage, assimilation, and vulnerability are not the causes but the symptoms of a transcendent malaise affecting a people once aflame with devotion.Hitting Bedrock

Two-thousand years after Herod's builders laid them, the foundation stones of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem have at last been uncovered.An Old Hatred Returns

The demon of anti-Semitism has managed to reenter European life through the back door, in the name not of racism but of anti-racism.9/11 and the Agunah Problem

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the forensic challenge of identifying the dead went hand in hand, for Jewish families, with the grim quandary of dissolving marriages according to Jewish law.      The Death of “Land for Peace”

"Land for peace" was never an even trade. With Egypt poised to remilitarize the Sinai, it's clear that it was ineffective, too.Israel and America (Not Constantinople)

Once the hub of the Sephardic music world, Istanbul's musical talents have since migrated to a new—and thriving—Diaspora.Choose Life, Choose Work

Traditional Jewish sources unequivocally stress the virtue of work and the value of earning a living.  Any movement teaching its children only Torah is a modern aberration.    In Reply

Held responds to Gil Student's critique of his contribution to a new volume on Jewish theology, and the role of Jewish law therein.      Is Judaism a Religion?

A common assumption is that Judaism began as a religion and only gradually grew into something more broad. But this has it exactly backward.