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Among the Lost Boys

The playwright Wendy Wasserstein turns out to have been a more complex and nuanced character than any of her own creations, and a darker one, too.Not Too Busy to Hate

It is naive to think that Egyptians—or the Arab world writ large—will accept the presence of a Jewish state in their midst any time soon, if ever. Rick Perry: Good for the Jews?

Yes, says the editor of the Weekly Standard, half tongue-in-cheek; no, and Jews shouldn't vote for him, says a blogger for the Washington Post.Singing “Their” Tunes

On the halakhic permissibility of, among other things, non-Jewish rituals and music in Jewish worship.Céline the Inescapable

A permanent and, by some, celebrated presence on the French literary landscape, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) incarnates for many others the epitome of rabid anti-Semitic bigotry.These Sacred Dead

Tucked away in hidden corners of Manhattan are some of the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the United States.Rabbi in the New World

Contradictions, or at least inconsistencies, marked Joseph B. Soloveitchik's involvement in virtually every major issue that confronted modern Orthodoxy.Fiction Prediction

Among the leading practitioners of experimental fiction, not a single Jewish name can be counted—a trend anticipated by Cynthia Ozick in 1970.Charity Begins Where?

In Israel, it's easier for charities to go abroad to raise money than it is for them to turn to the state's new wealthy class.