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To Market, to Market

Hummus, tiny eggplants, coffee, olives, spices, kitchen utensils, bread molds: a visit to the souk in Akko, Israel. (With photos.) Generation F

Their parents' and grandparents' spiritual lives were marked by a single strong affiliation, but today's young Jews have shifting practices and allegiances. Is this fluidity good or bad for the community? What 1967 Borders?

The Palestinian Authority is demanding recognition of lines that never existed.Of Helmets and Yarmulkes

Remembering Stephen J. Solarz, who as a U.S. Congressman secured more robust protection of religious freedoms for the enlisted—starting with an Orthodox Air Force officer.Why I Voted “No”

A vote on whether women should be admitted into the International Rabbinic Fellowship prompts one Orthodox rabbi to grapple with the function of religious leadership.Slow Food

This Shabbat, ring in the new with the old—ancient cholent recipes from Italy, Iraq, and around the globe.Va’era: Rhyme and Reason in the Ten Plagues

By Moshe Sokolow This week’s Torah portion features seven of the ten plagues that are to strike Pharaoh, the Egyptians, and the land of Egypt itself.  Their variety invites the question of whether they in general, and their sequence in particular, are random or reasoned.Plant a Tree in Israel?

Perhaps not; in the wake of the Carmel fires there is general agreement that the focus should be on sustainable management and a decades-long process of natural regeneration.