Issues

*Aries (March 21-April 19)* Starting in early October, every lawyer in New York whose name ends in a four-letter combination like "baum" will be tanned and rested from Easthampton, ready to both help and hinder...

*Chai-klops:* By the time you read this someone out there will be the proud owner of a piece of Jewish history: the eye patch of sabra, superstud *Moshe Dayan*, who lost his eye—one of only two in the original...

Summary

_What is guilt that thou art so mindful of it?_ Allen Salkin on a secular religion.

One hundred portraits of people you need to know about.

An aging toilet, an impenetrable coffee machine, an escalating co-payment and other dilemmas in this excerpt from _Behind Everyman_, by David Israel.

_(excerpted from original article)_ It sometimes takes audiences a song or two to figure out whether all of this is just one big post-modern joke—SoCalled makes you want to hunt down a Cossack and throw a crea...

75 percent of the Jews in America who voted in the 2004 presidential election voted for John Kerry—so why is the Republican Jewish Coalition so happy? Sara Marcus on the battle for the heart and soul of a new generation of Jewish voters.

_(excerpted from original article)_ "I'm black and a Jew—I swear I could spend years in therapy," Rain Pryor says. "But what's the point? I'd rather write about my life and perform it." Pryor, the daughter ...

Sick and tired of the religious right? Meet the men and women increasingly organizing around progressive causes as people of faith. Anya Kamenetz reports on the religious left.

South Africa, 1936: A young German couple begins a strange new life in this excerpt from Shana Liebman's novel in progress, based on the experiences of her grandparents.

Joshua Rubin photographs five punk sirens as they straighten their hair, cut calories and construct themselves as capitalist subjects.