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The Arab Winter

From Syria to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt, sectarian conflict, reignited by the "Arab Spring," is becoming the norm. Will Israel be drawn in?Settlement Syndrome

The latest complaint from Washington about new residential building in a West Bank town is evidence of a lingering fixation that impedes the possibility of compromise between Israelis and Palestinians.Samson without Delilah

A novel by the Yiddish writer Zalman Shneour provokes reflections on varieties of Jewish strength and Jewish pride, and on the strangled roots of postwar Yiddish culture. (1945)Unorthodox Orthodox Matchmaker

A rabbi has devised a way to help homosexual men fulfill their dream of becoming husbands and fathers while remaining in good standing with Jewish religious law.The Keidan Way

Descendants of a storied Lithuanian community, wiped out by the Nazis and their local helpers in August 1941, keep the flame of memory alive at annual reunions, this year in Tel Aviv and New York.Why No Palestinian Spring?

Through its security forces and grip on the media, the Western-funded Palestinian Authority has clamped down on protesters and would-be protesters; Hamas's methods are more crushing still.Guess Who’s Coming to New York

A coalition of extremist NGOs has announced plans to spend four days in Manhattan at the time of Durban III to champion the message that Zionism is racism and Palestinians are its victims.Soul Music

First came the klezmer revival, mainly a secular Jewish phenomenon; now the melodies sung and played in the old hasidic courts are being revived and recorded by klezmer musicians of a different stripe. (With video)Heart to Heart

An undergraduate Jewish "insider" who devised a means of bringing Jewish "outsiders" in has seen his model adopted at eighteen college campuses.The Gift of Rest

In an enchanting new book, Senator Joseph Lieberman argues that the purpose of the Sabbath is not "to recharge our batteries so we can work harder but to recharge our souls so we can live better."