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Hamas the Invulnerable?

So long as Hamas can attack Israel any time it wants, it can effectively veto any chance of peace with Palestinian moderates—should any turn up.In Tiktin, Without Jews

When it comes to European attitudes toward the Jewish people, what, in the end, has changed since the Holocaust? Clearly, not enough.Right of Reply

On the heated response of a prominent Reconstructionist rabbi to my article concerning the present condition of his movement.Crown Heights and the Forward

While others temporized or prevaricated about the August 1991 riots, a few named them for what they were, and the Forward, its then-editor recalls, led the way. The Arab Winter

From Syria to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt, sectarian conflict, reignited by the "Arab Spring," is becoming the norm. Will Israel be drawn in?Settlement Syndrome

The latest complaint from Washington about new residential building in a West Bank town is evidence of a lingering fixation that impedes the possibility of compromise between Israelis and Palestinians.Samson without Delilah

A novel by the Yiddish writer Zalman Shneour provokes reflections on varieties of Jewish strength and Jewish pride, and on the strangled roots of postwar Yiddish culture. (1945)Unorthodox Orthodox Matchmaker

A rabbi has devised a way to help homosexual men fulfill their dream of becoming husbands and fathers while remaining in good standing with Jewish religious law.The Keidan Way

Descendants of a storied Lithuanian community, wiped out by the Nazis and their local helpers in August 1941, keep the flame of memory alive at annual reunions, this year in Tel Aviv and New York.