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Changing Course on Circumcision

As Israeli lawmakers line up to castigate Germany for the recent court ruling outlawing ritual circumcision, the German government is preparing to change the law.From Dogma to Dissent

Vasily Grossman is now lauded as a dissident writer who dared to speak out against the USSR and reveal Stalin’s oppression of Jews. But he started out as a willing Soviet apologist.The Story of Silwan

While Silwan is routinely presented as a Palestinian neighborhood being colonized by Israel, historically the village has had a strong Jewish presence—evacuated in response to Arab attacks in 1939. Howard Jacobson Makes Havdalah

"Keep the meat from the milk, keep the holy from the profane, keep the living from the dead. And the goyim from the Jews? As an incorrigible mixer, with the bruises to show for it, I am still thinking about that."How Much Should One Mourn?

Whereas personal mourning declines in intensity over time, our national mourning for the destruction of the Temple will increase over the next three weeks.Dayan’s Lesson

The European media may see the rise of Likud as a sign of the Israeli public’s lurch to the Right, but since Dayan and Rabin the Israeli Left has produced no one prepared to act.