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The Syrian Crisis

The Obama administration has entertained high hopes for "engaging" Syria. The current uprising offers it another shot at getting history right; will it blink?J Street and Main

In appointing a member of J Street's rabbinic cabinet to head the Reform movement, the largest branch of American Judaism has moved away from its recent record of support for Israel.When the Wicked Perish

Is it inappropriate to celebrate the death of bin Laden? A Lubavitch rabbi responds.Cost-Saving and the Clergy

With the economy hurting and synagogue membership down, liberal congregations are downsizing staff, and some are predicting the end of the rabbinate as we know it.Where Dialogue Ends

Osama bin Laden's death was publicly mourned by the leadership of Hamas in Gaza. If "dialogue" has a limit, this is it.An Idea in Need of Repair

Today, the term tikkun olam is invoked on behalf of causes as diverse as toxic-waste disposal and intermarriage.  What is its origin, and what does it really mean? (PDF)  What Mordecai Richler Knew

A second look at the (mostly) neglected Jewish-Canadian novelist, whose characters refuse to give up the vigor and nerve their author put into them.The Throwback

Will Egypt enjoy a more democratic future? The prominence of Amr Moussa, an anti-Western, anti-Israel demagogue who will likely be the country's next president, suggests otherwise.Reading the Holocaust

An ordered guide to what is essential in the vast corpus of Holocaust literature.Trivializing the Holocaust

The impulse to turn the Holocaust into a metaphor for intolerance, far from making genocide unthinkable, has helped make it seem as commonplace as schoolyard bullying.