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The Wages of Criticism

The 18th-century scholar Aryeh Leib Ginsburg was a harsh critic of earlier halakhic authorities. Did they finally exact revenge on him? And, if so, who's been covering up the story?Barter in Bartaa

Straddling the Green Line, the village of Bartaa has become a booming market town. Or, rather, the Palestinian half has.History without Witnesses

As the Holocaust disappears from living memory, what matters is not who is speaking but who is listening.Cancelling Conversion

While many Orthodox rabbis have become too willing to annul conversions, even the non-Orthodox world recognizes that there are some circumstances in which a conversion must be overturned. Ardor, or Architecture

The holiness of Jerusalem in the Muslim tradition owes less to the Koran than it does to the opportunistic building program of Jerusalem's eight-century Umayyad rulers.Who’s Afraid of a Nuclear Iran?

Israel is—and since 1973, Israel has had reason to think that on the brink of its annihilation, Europe wouldn't act to save it. (Video)Jews, Booze, and Americanization

Prohibition presented a dilemma for Jews: Should they insist on an exemption for sacramental wine, or break with the past for the sake of assimilation?Amid the Alien Corn

By 1965, the now-renowned Orthodox rabbi and writer Aryeh Kaplan had relinquished physics graduate school and took a pulpit position in Mason City, Iowa, at a congregation that only had a late Friday night service. (Part II; part I is here.)        Sabra-Rattling

The latest survey on Israeli religion shows that Labor Zionism's attempt to replace Judaism with Israeliness has failed.