Day After Election Success: Far-right AfD Leader Questions Germany's Special Relationship With Israel
Controversial remarks that contravene Merkel's official policy come a day after the xenophobic AfD party came in third in the national election
Jewish World Features
No More Funny Business: 'Alt-right' Reinventing Itself as a Leaner, Meaner White Nationalist Power
The alt-right movement is moving away from the irony of Pepe the Frog and rallying more seriously around the white supremacist hard core
Opinion Only the Israeli Army Will Help the Country's ultra-Orthodox
Why do so many Israelis, including people of conscience whose own children are drafted, defend the ultra-Orthodox refusal to do army service?
Whisper It, but Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Community Is Starting to Talk About Homosexuality
Observers say there is a growing understanding among many Haredim that the previously taboo subject can no longer be ignored
Puerto Rico: Where Cubans and Americans Break Challah Together
Puerto Rico is the only island in the Caribbean that has Orthodox, Conservative and Reform congregations — and the latter is growing in leaps and bounds
Opinion Israeli Army's 'Purity of Arms' Doesn't Only Apply to Secular Soldiers
Those who make outrageous claims about integrating religious soldiers into the Israeli army must be reminded that every soldier, religious or not, has his own moral conscience
The Father, the Son and the Jewish Spirit: Saving Synagogues Where There Are No More Jews
In a Slovak town with no Jewish residents, a father and son restore a 200-year-old synagogue – and preserve the history of the Jewish life that once flourished there
With anti-Semitism on the Rise, German Jews Fear Far-right Victory in Looming Election
'We should be alarmed'
Book Review Nicole Krauss's New Novel: If Kafka Met Dante in an Israeli Desert
Two New York Jews adrift in Israel seek answers through Kafka, kabbalah and the Tel Aviv Hilton in Krauss's eagerly awaited new novel, 'Forest Dark.'
The Netherlands Is Still Hoarding a Massive Collection of Art Looted From Jews by Nazis
Tens of thousands of artworks stolen from Jews during World War II are still in the hands of the Dutch authorities and in museums in Holland - and they're not giving them back
