20
Jan
The Dotted Path to Cartoon Heaven
20
Jan
Bukharian Cuisine: A Taste of the Silk Road
By Josh Tapper
A Bukharian Friday night dinner is an elaborate affair: Plates of carp doused with garlic sauce and cilantro, garlick...
08
Jan
Visual Moment // Medieval Cairo
By Diane M. Bolz // Today, fewer than 50 Jews remain in Egypt, but for thousands of years the country was home to a series of important Jewish communities.
07
Jan
Opinion // Jews Aren’t the Only Ones Marrying Out
By Mark Oppenheimer // Fewer and fewer American religious groups practice endogamy today.
07
Jan
Opinion // Rip-Off Rabbis and Sacred Scammers
By Naomi Ragen // Several high-profile Israeli rabbis have come under fire for less-than-holy schemes.
31
Dec
Opinion // Will Israel and the U.S. Break Up over Iran?
By Robert Satloff
Differing approaches to Iran's nuclear program do not bode well for Israel in 2014.
Israel begins 2014 fa...
31
Dec
Opinion // The Politics and Ethics of Street Tzedakah
By Letty Cottin Pogrebin
There are many reasons not to give to the homeless, but we should do it anyway.
When I was young, ...
31
Dec
Ask the Rabbis // Religion & Science
In what ways, if any, do science and Judaism conflict?
31
Dec
Moment in Music // Michael Bloomfield
By Josh Tapper
On February 15, 1981, Michael Bloomfield’s body was discovered in a parked car on a San Francisco side street. The 37...
31
Dec
Natural Gas: Israel’s Game Changer
Recent discoveries of large natural gas reserves off Israel’s coast will soon transform the country into an energy exporter, and bring in billions of dollars in new revenue. But the new finds also open up a Pandora’s Box of environmental, financial, social, security and foreign policy concerns.