Our editorial board thought long and hard before going ahead with this issue’s somewhat controversial cover story, “When Leaders Fail: Healing from Rabbinic Scandal.” Members…
Summer 2015(5775)
People of the Book: Five Hundreds Years of the Hebrew Book From the Beginning of Printing Until the Twentieth Century
Like many contemporary Jews, I approach Tishah B’Av with difficulty. Not because of the myriad restrictions in the Three Weeks, the mourning period that precedes…
“Then comes a new stage in life . . .” Miriam Liebermann writes poignantly in her new anthology, To Fill the Sky with Stars. The…
When the popular Mount Sinai Jewish Center in the Washington Heights section of New York wanted to reach out to affiliated and non-affiliated Jews in…
By Martin Nachimson There was much hand-wringing when the Pew Research Center’s “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” was first released in October 2013. We all…
This past February, Ira Forman, US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, spoke to Orthodox Union leaders about the rise of global anti-Semitism. The…
In December, twenty-seven Jews from North America toured the land of Israel for ten days, singing the entire way and joined by Lipa Schmeltzer,…
In Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural, an extremely talented ball player, Roy Hobbs, is discovered to have taken a bribe to throw a baseball game.…
Q: I toss and turn for hours every night, just staring at the clock. Is there anything I can change in my diet to help…
At the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, the nearly 10,000 residents of Gush Katif had succeeded in building a paradise on Earth.
