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The Educated-But-Untrained Rabbi

Concerned that Israeli congregational rabbis lack the people skills of their American counterparts, the founders of Barkai bill their new training program "a trade school for rabbis."Lekh L’kha: Right, Left

To go right or to go left—an election decision? No, that's the choice Abraham gave Lot. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:12:01Hollywood for Haredim

A recent spate of movies by female Haredi directors has exposed secular film-goers to the ultra-Orthodox world—but has also exposed Haredi women to the cinema.Leading Germany’s Jews

The 80-year-old Holocaust survivor who leads Munich’s Jews says it wasn't until the 2006 inauguration of a synagogue in the city that she finally felt at home in Germany. (Interview by Susanne Beyer)Barak’s New Bargain

Ehud Barak’s new idea: incorporate some settlements into Israel and pull out of the rest of the West Bank.  A retreat from Zionism—or a way to save it?Not-So-Intelligent Design

“Intelligent design” proponents, including prominent observant Jews, see the theory as reconciling science and faith.  Would that it were true. Kabbalah’s Spiritual Home

Kabbalah is most widely known in its Madonna-patented celebrity version.  But Jewish mysticism's real home is Safed, which attracts a different sort of tourist.