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On the Roots of Israel’s Culture Wars

The ongoing conflict between religious and secular worldviews expresses itself in competing visions of Israel's system of law. (Interview by David Green)In Your Face

Eyes that spurn yet inviteLike spikes in the sunlightOf Manhattan's high-rise—Babylon's ladies outshineDaughters of Jerusalem,Zion is no easy climbThe Eternal Return

The relationship between the United States and Israel is fracturing. The president is pressuring the Jewish state to make painful concessions in return for vague agreements.  Israeli leaders worry that the support of a formerly reliable constituency—American Jews—is slipping away.The year is 1975.Hail to the Chief?

Now that modern-day Judaism is losing ground as a uniform community in Britain, many are asking whether the chief rabbi can—or should—continue to try to unite Jewry under a single umbrella.Blurring the Line

How does the media whitewash Muslim persecution of Christians? One way is to evoke "sectarian strife," a phrase that conjures images of two equally matched adversaries fighting. Remembering Too Well?

The importance of fostering a Jewish identity that values "God of Sinai" over "God of Auschwitz."Genetic Threads

The story of Jewish origins, once the province of historians and scholars of religion, is now being told by DNA—and it decisively refutes the counter-narratives promulgated by Shlomo Sand. There’s a Key in My Challah!

Does the post-Passover tradition known as "shliss challah" derive from symbolic readings of the season's texts—or, rather, is it a Christian symbol of Jesus rising in the dough?