Judaism

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  • The sound of silence

    Heartsick over the bloodshed in Israel, liberal American Jews are so far paralyzed by a conflict in which Palestinians are aggressors as well as victims.
    By Samuel G. Freedman October 3, 2000

  • Slick with sincerity

    On the stump, Joe Lieberman is proving to be good for the Jews and great for Al Gore, even as his critics get louder.
    By Jake Tapper September 26, 2000

  • "The Holocaust Industry" by Norman G. Finkelstein

    Is this indictment of Jewish lobby groups a righteous battle cry or something more sinister?
    By Andrew Ross August 30, 2000

  • Closing the piety gap

    With Joe Lieberman, the Democrats have someone who can take God back from the right. But do we really need more moralizing about private issues in public life?
    By James Traub August 16, 2000

  • Peace without compromise?

    The failure of the Camp David summit could spell war, and soon -- or it could be the best thing for the Middle East peace process.
    By Flore de Preneuf August 10, 2000

  • Cheney supported controversial fundraiser

    The veep nominee was on the finance committee for an Arab-sponsored charity dinner that excluded Israelis.
    By Jake Tapper July 27, 2000

  • Higher calling

    Why did the Orthodox community ignore three decades' worth of allegations that Rabbi Baruch Lanner abused children in his care? Simple: He was good at his job.
    By Michael Kress July 19, 2000

  • God is their copilot

    Both born-again, Bush and Gore have made this the most God-fearing presidential race in 100 years. But their faiths have led these men in two completely different directions.
    By Jake Tapper July 7, 2000

  • Side-locked but not sidelined

    For today's young Hasidic couples, pleasurable sex just might be kosher after all.
    By Rebecca Segall July 6, 2000

  • Remembering Cardinal O'Connor

    He stopped taking my calls after I slammed him in the press, but he still had time to be kind to my mother, an Orthodox Jew.
    By Ari L. Goldman May 5, 2000

  • The number that will outlive my grandfather

    During World War II, this number was meant to track whether or not he was still alive. Now, he wants it to follow him to his grave.
    By Alexandra J. Wall May 1, 2000

  • My grandfather's seder

    In our family, food is divine.
    By Adria Popkin April 18, 2000

  • The love rabbi

    Shmuley Boteach's sex-positive, gentile-friendly Orthodox Judaism sounds too good to be true. It is.
    By Sarah Blustain March 2, 2000

  • Be fruitful and multiply

    Infertile couples who are members of strict religious organizations often find themselves vilified by the church.
    By Michael Kress February 23, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    For richer and richer: There's no holiness in this matrimony Plus: Not all religions are sexually repressive; Asian eyelids are beautiful without surgery
    Letters to the editor February 18, 2000

  • Penis of Jesus trimmed 2,000 years ago

    While the Feast of the Circumcision is no longer a Catholic cause cilhbre, male mutilation continues its barbaric history.
    By Hank Hyena January 4, 2000

  • Mixing the holidays

    A little cross-religious indulgence isn't going to damn anyone to an eternity in hell. Is it?
    By Gentry Lane December 22, 1999

  • A Jew for baby Jesus

    I can't help having myself a merry little Christmas.
    By Amy Silverman December 22, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Do criminals deserve prison rapes? Plus: Funeral parlors, drugs and Dubya; faking depression.
    Letters to the Editor August 30, 1999

  • Leap of faith

    It took a trip to Israel to bridge the gap between a blond, blue-eyed WASP and her Jewish mother-in-law.
    By Jennifer New March 14, 1998

  • foreskin or against it?

    Is circumcision the unkindest cut of all?
    By Hank Hyena August 20, 1997

  • Media Circus: You're finished

    A slow summer leads a city magazine to cry wolf.
    By Seth Gitell August 7, 1997
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