March 9, 2003

A four-year prison sentence given to a Ukrainian skinhead is being heralded as a significant step toward tolerance and democracy in this former Soviet republic. This is the first conviction under the nation’s decade-old hate-crime law.

A collection of interviews with a Jerusalem-based talmudic scholar has hit Russian bookstores. The book, which touches on decidedly secular topics like money, soccer and wine, is based on a series of columns that have made Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz arguably t