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Between Tradition and Modernity

The same week in which the Conservative movement issued guidelines for performing same-sex marriages, it ruled against the use of computers, cell phones, and e-readers on Shabbat.Jewish is the New Black

Identity group labels seldom work as their proponents hope—and at CUNY, some faculty members see a new taxonomy as rife with the potential to become a tool of exclusion.Dr. Seuss’s War

While best known for works like The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss "was haunted by the war in Europe," and was a prolific political cartoonist during the 1940s.  Here, a gallery.       The “Eikhah Problem”

Why do Jews persist in believing that anti-Semitism is their own fault? (Video)Accounting for Abbas

If Mahmoud Abbas has struggled to match Yasser Arafat as a popular leader, he has proven to be at least as adept as his predecessor in embezzling funds. Whose Victory?

As non-Orthodox movements celebrate the ruling allowing their rabbis to receive public money in Israel, they should remember that with government funding comes government control.India’s Jewish General

Asked to name a great Jewish warrior, few Jews would point to Jack Jacob. But in his native India, the Jewish general who won the Indo-Pakistan War is a hero.The Yeridah Myth

The received wisdom has long been that Israel has a problem with emigration. Yet the data shows not only that comparatively few Israelis leave, but also that most come back.