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Reggae, Rabbis, and Pirates

Once upon a time, the island nation of Jamaica boasted six synagogues and 2,000 Jews.Are Coffee and Dope Kosher for Passover?

Two curious angles on the holiday custom of refraining from certain grains and legumes (kitniyot).Handling Hamas

To a British Labor MP, comparisons with the Irish Republican Army are tempting, but fallacious; Hamas is nowhere near ready to negotiate.Faith and the Justices

The Supreme Court now has a Catholic majority and more Jewish members than Protestants; in the making of appointments, has political philosophy become more important than religion?Powerbroker

The ultra-Orthodox leader Menachem Porush ensured the insular rights of his community but failed to change the character of the Jewish state; in pursuing the opposite policy, his successors may be failing their community.Snowmageddon

The collapse of eruvim in winter storms has raised interest in a generally unmarked Jewish concept; an American artist sees the enclosures as drawings in space.Was Chopin an Anti-Semite?

Not really, but he did have a pronounced and little-discussed distaste for Jews.Iran and the UN: Showdown at Last?

The IAEA may finally be getting real about Tehran's nuclear-weapons program.Jewish Hip-Hop, What Next?

Along with a slew of other events, the welcome appearance in London of the rapper Ephrhyme may signal a newly distinctive British-Jewish cultural landscape.Supply-Side Judaism

Among young American Jews, the demand for knowledge and identification is there. Missing are the initiatives and the leaders to meet it.