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Conservative Jews Walk the Intermarriage Tightrope

The rabbi will counsel you, but stay off the bimah.  The synagogue will welcome you warmly—but you can’t actually join.  Intermarriage is here.  Conservative Judaism tries to adjust.  The Middle East’s “Big Men”

"Some months after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, I sat at lunch with the aging Hosni Mubarak . . ."Seventy Years of Soviet Zion

Despite predictions of its demise, Birobidzhan, the autonomous Jewish region in Siberia founded by Stalin, still has a Jewish character and is seeing a rebirth in Jewish culture. Michal of Makhpelah

On October 9th, 1968, 13-year-old Michal Arbel, daughter of the head of the Shin Bet, became the first Jew to enter the Cave of the Patriarchs in 700 years.Philanthropist I and Philanthropist II

While American Jewish philanthropists tend to create new institutions from scratch, the Jewish community also needs people to maintain what we already have. The Real Enemy

“What was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn’t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care, and the infrastructures instead of wars?”Darkness on the Deep

“Is Genesis’s description of the universe at its inception, before the creation of light, a radically reimagined, reworked and de-mythologized rendering of the Babylonian legend?”