Food — Joan Nathan
How To Make Salyanka, a Hearty Georgian Stew With Beef and Red Peppers
Video: The former Soviet republic’s Jewish history dates back millennia. This simple recipe is one of the community’s treasures.
Columnists
Agents of Influence — Lee Smith
The Palestinians Are To Blame for the Failed Peace Talks—But Not for the Reason You Think
Abbas is facing an internal challenge to his leadership, and that—not Israeli housing plans—is why he’s bailing on Kerry
Literature — Adam Kirsch
Which Came First: The Chicken, the Egg, or the Divine Law That Governs Their Use?
The apparent abstraction of Talmudic rulings, immune to the vagaries of history, are also a key to Jewish survival
Continental Drift — James Kirchick
Putin Warned of Fascism in Ukraine, But a Look Across Europe Suggests He’s to Blame
A visit to Kiev’s Jewish institutions reveals Jews there are less concerned about their neighbors at home than the bully next door
Marjorie Ingall
Everyone Knows That Kids Today Are Spoiled. Is Everyone Wrong?
Author Alfie Kohn bucks conventional wisdom about parenting. He makes some good points, when he’s not simply being contrarian.
Agents of Influence — Lee Smith
Egypt Is on the Brink of Chaos. Here’s Why It Should Matter to Washington.
Three years after Mubarak’s fall, the country is toying with global irrelevance—except as a possible terror exporter
Literature — Adam Kirsch
Jugglers, Acrobats, a Magnificent Temple—and Notably No Political Strife
In the Talmud, nostalgic, biblical, divine explanations override accurate secular history and chronology
The Tattler — Rachel Shukert
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Face Off Over Jewish Stars
When oversensitivity meets entitlement, there’s a reality-show lesson about the struggles of misfits
Literature — Adam Kirsch
Why Read Daf Yomi? To Rediscover an Older Way of Imagining the Jewish Spirit.
To the Talmudic rabbis, religion was not opposed to the law but deeply connected to its study, even if dialogue wins over decree
Agents of Influence — Lee Smith
For Gulf Allies, Obama’s Turn Away From the Region Looks Like a Gift to Tehran
Disengagement from a region whose power structures are predicated on American management is a recipe for disaster
Sports Book King Jeff Pearlman Dishes on the Lakers, Wishes He Had an Afro
As the NBA playoffs begin, a new book revives the big stars, drugs, sex, and rivalries of Magic Johnson’s 1980s basketball dynasty
My Name Is Donald Lev, I Speak for the Trees
The cab-driving poet and his wife marched alone together in the Israel Day Parade
In San Francisco and in Palestine, It’s Time To Grow Up and Take Responsibility
From smashing Google Glasses to rejecting peace talks, failing to understand natural rights is leading to some very dark places
For These Moroccan Muslims, Mimouna Isn’t Just a Jewish Thing—It’s Their Heritage, Too
Members of the Mimouna Club have made it their mission to learn about Jews and Jewish life as a way of learning about themselves
How the Depression Blinded American Jews to Their German Relatives’ Pleas for Help
In 1936, Nazis celebrated Easter with Judenrein eggs—but a new book of family letters shows the crisis didn’t translate
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How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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