‘America’s Mayor,’ who once called for U.S. intervention in Kosovo, is now consulting for Serbian nationalists

The first free presidential election in Egypt begins today. No matter the winner, liberal democracy has lost.

On same-sex marriage, Orthodox Jews should keep the religious and civil separate—as they do on other issues

The new modern translation of Likutey Moharan shows why the Hasidic master is relevant today

Internet parodies of the Fuhrer, including a new blog, weaken our memory of the Holocaust—and that’s good

The Czech Surrealist Jindřich Heisler’s mystical art, on view in Chicago, reflected the Holocaust he avoided

I thought Jewish law left no role for me to grieve when my fiancé’s brother died. Now, I finally can.

A year after the ‘cottage-cheese protests,’ Israel’s boutique cheese-makers face a busy Shavuot

A well-thumbed book from my Lutheran childhood is now the ideal text for my Shavuot study and reflection