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Who Owns Samson Raphael Hirsch?

Both modern Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews have laid claim to the influential 19th-century German rabbi and thinker; the former have the better argument.The Coming Storm

It will take energy and luck to deal with the Palestinian initiative at the UN in September; it will take more to manage the situation afterward. (PDF) Hukkat: Moses’ Mistake

This week's reading contains an apparently straightforward episode that is in fact one of the most mysterious in the Bible. When the Israelites find themselves without water, they become quarrelsome. Moses is commanded by God to "speak to the rock and let it produce its water" (Numbers 20:8).In Jerusalem, with Shyne

Notes from a visit to Israel—including a sighting of the rapper Jamal Michael Barrow, now Moses Michael Levi, in black hat, beard, and sidecurls.The Welfare of Animals

As the Dutch parliament debates a bill to ban kosher slaughter, it is well to bear in mind that the practice is mandated in order to prevent animal suffering—as indeed it does.“The Center of the Whole World”

A 16th-century German collection of maps includes a rendering of Jerusalem, a city "whose size and splendor marvels the imagination."Toward the Promised Land

Later this year, over 7,000 members of the Bnei Menashe community, which claims descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes, are preparing to emigrate from northeast India to Israel.Include Us In

England's Jewish twenty-somethings may not be found in the community's long-established institutions, religious or secular, but there is nothing apathetic about their engagement with Judaism.The Shame of the “Human-Rights Community”

Twelve leading human-rights organizations have marked the fifth anniversary of Gilad Shalit's captivity with a statement so craven that it doesn't even demand his release.