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Darkness on the West Bank

A window onto the beleaguered and despised Jewish community of Hebron. (With photos)Durban III: No, But . . .?

Washington's decision to pull out of the UN's upcoming reprise of the anti-Israel Durban I and II is a welcome move; but the Durban illness runs deep, and now comes the hard part.Beyond Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform

Today's denominations look very different from yesterday's, but the synagogue remains the most significant institution in American Jewish lifeHow Do You Pronounce That?

Hebrew vowels sounded one way in Lithuania, another in Poland, a third in northern Germany, a fourth in France, England, and North America. Guess which one prevailed.Laid-Back Israel

A scientific study has concluded that a certain highly threatened society on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean comports itself, improbably enough, like a Mediterranean society. The Persistence of Hate

Are anti-Semitic attitudes transmitted across not only generations but centuries? According to a comparative study of two German communities, the answer may be yes.Banning Circumcision

Efforts to criminalize circumcision are an attack not on Jews but on religion, opposition to which is growing more militant even in religion-friendly America.Mind Your Own Business

An 1887 complaint in the London Jewish Chronicle about the "theatricality" of American Reform ordinations draws a rebuke and a put-down by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.