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Freedom Tales

From a medieval manuscript to the script for an interfaith seder, a new crop of Haggadot shows that the old words still hold their own.    Making a Hash of the Haggadah

The impulse to revise and update the prescribed Passover service remains unquenchable, yielding results that range from the odd to the preposterous. The Writing on the Synagogue Wall

James Kugel warned of the "Ceremonial Hall Synagogue," the "Nostalgia Center," and the "Davening Club." Are we witnessing the demise of the synagogue—and should we try to save it?Dovecoattails

"Can you build an organization which is an alternative and not attract all the haters of Israel?"  Forty years ago, the pressure group Breira tried it—and J Street's director is hoping the comparison works in his organization's favor.       The Dreyfus of Classical Music

Once vilified by Schumann and Wagner for not being German enough, now Giacomo Meyerbeer's music is criticized for not being Jewish enough.Beinart the Unwise

What is wrong with The Crisis of Zionism is contained within its title: Zionism itself is not in crisis. The liberal Zionism that Peter Beinart espouses is.    Eric Kandel’s Visions

Why is the Nobel-winning neuroscientist who's spent most of his career fixated on sea snails writing on art history?  It may have a lot to do with his background as a Viennese Jew . . .     Burial in Israel

Forty percent of practicing French Jews are buried in Israel. They aren't alone in wanting this, for reasons that run all the way back to Genesis—but aren't without controversy.