Naive newcomer

"[Ayaan] Hirsi Ali writes beautifully and with an unerring critical precision. Contrasting the Western nuclear family with the suffocating family structure in Somalia, she says, 'The infidel is loyal to his wife and children; he may take care of his parents but has no use for a memory ...

Eating disorders and religion? Bulimia, anorexia and other such maladies are growing among Orthodox Jews, according to a recent "Food, Body Image and Eating Disorders in the Jewish Community" workshop I attended in Bethesda, Md.

The Jewish culture is centered on food. Matzo ball soup, hamentaschen, gefilte fish, latkes, challah, ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus | In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a religion weakened by assimilation, and a division of the island that has lasted 36 years with no end in ...