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Return to Vienna

Jews who grew up in cosmopolitan pre-war Vienna came back after the war to find themselves strangers at home. Yet Austria's capital still fascinates Jewish writers.               Keep Religion out of Israeli Adoptions

When conversion becomes a condition for adoption, the process is easily distorted—by pressures on rabbinical conversion court judges and prospective parents.    Romancing the Rosenbergs

When it comes to anti-American spies like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed fifty-nine years ago today, technical guilt may now be acknowledged but, for the most part, moral guilt is not.Memories of the Machalniks

Praised by Ben-Gurion as the Diaspora's most important contribution to the nascent state, the overseas volunteers in the War of Independence finally have an exhibit in their honor.The Idealist and the Pragmatist

Two of Israel's Sephardic chief rabbis, Benzion Meir Hai Uziel and Ovadia Yosef, had strikingly different views about how Sephardic traditions were to meet Ashkenazic ones in Israel.Can a Small Country Have a Big Heart?

Searches and arrests, erecting of border fences, bolstering of guard units, kicking out poor migrants—all these scenes will now become a chapter in Jewish history. Israel has no other choice.Johnny Cash’s Christian Zionism

June Carter Cash "had a dream in which Johnny was preaching to the multitudes at the Sea of Galilee, and she was intent on seeing him do it for real."The More Deceived

Palestinian rhetoric is not merely based on lies; it does not consider truth to be a value. And Western critical filters are more eroded than ever.Disunited Synagogue

While some at the New Statesman may still believe Jews to be a powerful enemy within, Anglo-Jewry has never agreed on anything—whether religious practice, Zionism, or the admittance of Jewish refugees.