New York

One correction to Gary Rosenblatt’s thoughtful column describing the bar mitzvah revolution (“URJ Overhauling The Bar/Bat Mitzvah,” June 22). Simon Kuh did indeed chant his Torah and Haftorah (beautifully) in our New Emanuel Minyan service. What made his bar mitzvah different was the focus on bar mitzvah as a rite of passage to adulthood, not […]

Jerusalem has been a bustling, even joyous city for the better part of a century, the destination of choice for visitors to Israel, most certainly for American Jews and thousands of our students. The Kotel is never lonely, and the real estate is so in demand that it has attracted foreign speculators and local resentment, […]