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Count Your Blessings

Halakhah says that the blessing recited upon the birth of a child with Down Syndrome is the same as the blessing upon a death.  A 17-year-old girl may know better. Lieberman On Trial

As the odds against Avigdor Lieberman’s being cleared of charges before Israel's elections increase, so do the odds of Likud-Beiteinu’s abandoning him.Our Movies, Our Selves

In 1947, the movies changed—partly because of Jewish critic Siegfried Kracauer, whose work showed the extent to which films reflect the mentality of a nation.Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

Yosl Bergner, age six, drew a scene of a Jewish corpse under a train.  Now 92, he still paints Jewish history: "Old memories attack me and I fight back by painting them."Musings on Metzitzah

If the practice of suctioning blood during circumcision was instituted on medical grounds and we now see that it has no medical benefit, why keep doing it?  Tradition.A Stiff-Necked People

"Israelis are a stiff-necked people," admits Ehud Barak in a farewell to electoral politics.  But that is what it takes to survive in a tough neighborhood.