FOCUS
REINVENTING
CHANUKAH

The Secret of
Jewish Survival
by Michael Feshbach

The Comeback Holiday
by Jenna Weissman Joselit

In Search
of a Miracle
by Manuel Gold

A New Spin in
the Synagogue
by Andi Rosenthal

Try This at Home
by Beth Friedman
& Amy Soule

JEWISH LIFE

Trendspotting:
Imaginative Erev Shabbat Services
by Gabrielle K. Mayer

Spirituality:
The Fly
Fishing Rabbi
by Eric Eisenkramer

Jewish Journeys:
The Long
Road Home
by Mark Young 

Books:
Days of Yore
by Bonny V. Fetterman

Books for Discussion—
Significant
Jewish Books
by Bonny V. Fetterman

Cooking:
Our Ancestors Didn't Know
from Latkes
by Tina Wasserman

WINTER '08 COVER STORY
Get Off Oil
The U.S. has no emergency plan to get off oil. A conversation with investigative writer Edwin Black about a contingency plan to dramatically reduce oil consumption in America and the new alternatives to oil — including a revolutionary Israeli enterprise, premiering in 2010, that might make gasoline powered cars obsolete.

FEATURE STORIES

The Columbus Conundrum by Aron and Judy Hirt-Manheimer Why did Columbus first visit a rival kingdom upon his return from America? Why did Jews and converted Jews finance Columbus's voyage? Why did Columbus depend on a rabbi?		What God Can Learn from Us A conversation with Jack H Bloom on the false notion of God as a perfect Being and the ways God can learn from us mortals. Read/comment on blog posts about this article.

In Search of the Synagogue, Part IV A conversation with Lee I. Levine on two distinctive finds—the Dura Europos Synagogue in Syria and the Sardis Synagogue in today's Turkey—that have changed our view of Jewish art in antiquity.
Rebel with a Cause  An interview with Anat Hoffman, the young champion swimmer who brought down Israel's Goliath teleophone monopoly and now fights injustice, intolerance, and ineptitude throughout the land.
Israel in the Footsteps of My Grandparents by Steven Schnur Israel is simply too precious a gift to be left solely to the Israelis. We all have a stake in its future.

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