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Praying What We Pray

Analyzing six Jewish prayers, Barry Freundel shows how they were shaped and reshaped and became what they are today; in so doing, he revives the life of prayer itself.The Other Scholem

Once-prominent Werner Scholem—overshadowed by his younger brother Gershom, murdered at Buchenwald, his name consigned to oblivion by his Communist colleagues—has faded into history.What 1967 Borders?

The Palestinian Authority is demanding recognition of lines that never existed.Of Helmets and Yarmulkes

Remembering Stephen J. Solarz, who as a U.S. Congressman secured more robust protection of religious freedoms for the enlisted—starting with an Orthodox Air Force officer.Why I Voted “No”

A vote on whether women should be admitted into the International Rabbinic Fellowship prompts one Orthodox rabbi to grapple with the function of religious leadership.Slow Food

This Shabbat, ring in the new with the old—ancient cholent recipes from Italy, Iraq, and around the globe.Generation F

Their parents' and grandparents' spiritual lives were marked by a single strong affiliation, but today's young Jews have shifting practices and allegiances. Is this fluidity good or bad for the community? Uncivil Service

As increasing light is shed on the active involvement by government bureaucrats in the Nazi annihilation of Jews, today's German foreign and finance ministries are having to confront their past.Open Secret

In a confidential 2008 memo to U.S. State Department representatives around the world, Condoleezza Rice confirmed that Israel had destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor.