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Greek Justice

Those arrested in the devastating double arson of an exquisitely restored 16th-century Cretan synagogue will evidently not face trial; a pattern is at work here. (Scroll down for English text.)Does Halakhah Change?

Innovation in Jewish religious law is natural; but, as a new book suggests, everything depends on the context and the circumstances.Through a Warped Lens

When it comes to the Holocaust, even a documentary based on original footage, like Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished, has more in common with other movies than with the experience it depicts.Not Your Grandmother’s Candlesticks

To view the works exhibited at a recent show of contemporary ritual Judaica is to ask where the line should be drawn between Jewish art and Jewish kitsch.To Be Self-Fruitful and Multiply

Orthodox women who find themselves single at a certain age are having children on their own, absent a unified rabbinic position.     Do I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem?

A June 2010 survey finds the majority of American Jews still attached to Israel, with those under forty-five somewhat less so; political ideology is not a factor. (PDF.) Unknown Homeland

Multi-generational Palestinian "refugees" are not necessarily eager to return to their ancestral homes.Arrested Development

Today, adulthood comes later and later.  Why should the age of bar mitzvah stay the same?Mountain Jews

Two-and-a-half millennia ago, a band of Jews passed through Persia and settled in the Caucasus mountains, where amid growing hardship they maintain their culture today.