vaccinations
Booster Shot for Jewish Values
Jewish teaching and public health agree: Vaccinate your kids. What should be done about the opt-outers?
Restoring Parenting Sanity
While Colbert and Stewart face off in D.C., parents, too, hover between sanity and fear
Needling Worry
Why are we so crazy when it comes to vaccines?
Measles Rash
Immunization fears lead to another outbreak among New York’s ultra-Orthodox
Excerpt: Solomon’s Island
The Internet says the Lost Temple of Israel is hidden in the South Pacific. A reporter went to investigate.
Even Criminals Rest in Peace
What would Jewish law have to say about alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s burial?
Neighborhood Bully
Why the Israel Defense Forces hit Syria—and why they believe that Assad won’t hit back
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Sundown: Israel, Syria Exchange Gunfire at Border
6:44 PM —Plus Steve Cohen, Al Jazeera, and Mila Kunis
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Robby Krieger on the Death of Ray Manzarek
2:31 PM —The Doors guitarist remembers the influential keyboardist
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The Jewishness of ‘Lolita’ and Humbert Humbert
1:12 PM —Putting Lolita‘s famous creep through an exegesis
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Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law Wants to Keep His Jewish Lawyer
11:37 AM —The Jewish judge in the case is trying to dissuade him
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Documenting a New York City Matzoh Institution
10:30 AM —Two young filmmakers are bringing the story of Streit’s Matzo Factory to life
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Daybreak: EU Aims to Blacklist Hezbollah
9:02 AM —Plus the Claims Conference and the Department of Justice
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Qatar’s Call for Peace and Muhammed al-Dura
3:47 PM —How is Israel still responsible for regional peace?
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Dumb and Dumber
By David P. Goldman — How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle EastThe Mideast Crack-Up
By David Samuels — Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab mapWhen Berlin Meant Business
By Vox Tablet — Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.Ed Koch’s Catholic Send-off
By Jonathan R. Cohen — The former mayor, who had a deep relationship with Catholicism, will be memorialized in a Mass at St. Patrick'sWho Can Follow These Rules?
By Adam Kirsch — This week’s Talmud reading prompts strikingly contemporary questions about observance and belief
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
New York Rabbi’s Awful Award
The Other Torah
Bar Mitzvahs on the Beach
Helen Keller's Letter to Nazi Germany
The Napkin Artist
Steimatzky Tells Israelis to Bring a Book to Bed
Dangling Men
How Stephen Hawking Is Wrong
Robby Krieger on the Death of Ray Manzarek
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When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.


