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Next Year in Worms

The place where Rashi (1040–1105) studied and where the oldest European synagogue stood is now devoid of a Jewish community; but the memory lives on, if selectively.The Limits of Tikkun Olam

To my fellow non-Orthodox Jews: as a community, we must repair ourselves far more urgently than we must repair the world.Protestant Mishnah

Can the ancient rabbinic code of law be studied on its own, apart from the commentaries, deliberations, and disputes of the Talmud?Amy Winehouse, Cremation, and the Jews

More than half of Americans in Western states are being cremated after death; can the Jewish community be far behind, and where have modern Jewish authorities stood on the issue?Party of Fraud

Is it not time to expose Hizballah for what it is—no standard-bearer of "resistance" in Lebanon but a worldwide criminal gang—and to prosecute it as such?Crying Fascism

Israeli democracy is weighed down by the attitudes of some Russian immigrants to freedom of expression; but warnings of creeping fascism are misplaced, and never more so than today.Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust

Fixated on Soviet crimes against it, Vilnius is shirking its responsibility to acknowledge the scale of the Nazi genocide on its soil—carried out with the complicity and assistance of Lithuanians.The New-New Kosher

The revolution in kosher gourmet cuisine has been largely propelled by chefs recently recruited or returning to religious observance.What a Country!

After twenty-six years in Israel, one immigrant is blisteringly denounced before the Tel Aviv city council, and asks: "How did I ever get here?"Gas Attack

Only now that Israel has identified substantial underwater gas reserves is Hizballah making an issue of maritime borders. Is it, perchance, spoiling for a fight?