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A Newer New Paradigm

A focus on expanding women’s role in rituals takes us in precisely the wrong direction: We should be looking beyond rituals to the fulfillment of more fundamental mitzvot.Pray This Way

Even Jews who don't pray often know that when they do, they should face East to Jerusalem; so why do so many synagogues face in other directions?What the Islamists Get Right

Censoring Mein Kampf, Holocaust denial, and other neo-Nazi propaganda is not only an affront to free speech but completely ineffective; and we shouldn't need Islamists to tell us so.Bloomberg’s Ban?

While both Germany and San Francisco have seen genuine attempts to ban brit milah, the New York City Board of Health's decision to regulate part of the ritual is nothing of the sort.The Jewish State

Although the Israeli Right now demands that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, Likudniks of the past were prepared to be more flexible if peace was at stake. Handel’s Scandal?

With his Jewish patrons and Old Testament subject matter, critics long supposed Handel to be a great philo-Semite; but recent research has shown his relationship with London's Jews to be much more complicated.  Roots

Ahmadinejad’s latest denial of Israel’s historical roots should serve to remind us of how much archeologists have discovered about ancient Israelite culture.Settling for Peace

"I and you, Hakham Froman, can make peace in five minutes, because both of us are religious."Conserving Halakhah

As Conservative Jews increasingly lose interest in Jewish law, a new book from the movement’s Rabbinical Assembly argues that halakhic observance is inseparable from the pursuit of an ethical lifestyle.The Afghan Genizah

A trove of medieval Jewish documents recently found in Afghanistan promises to shed light not only on Jewish life at the time of the Mongol invasion but also on the evolution of the Persian language.