After I left the Orthodox world—and my marriage—I found a new place to observe the Jewish New Year: on a different kind of path

Taken out of context, ancient Rabbinic laws—such as those on capital punishment discussed in this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ study—can attract the attention of those who hate us

Long a dull staple of Rosh Hashanah tables, honey cake is having a renaissance, with a wide range of new variations

‘Afghanistan is the swamp and Trump now owns it’

Successive two-term administrations made a mess of the Middle East. Who will clean up?

Two new studies of Islam portray recent outbursts of coordinated violence and oppression not as a reaction to Western liberalism but instead as fundamental to the religion itself

To better understand the settler movement today, look to new thinkers like Rav Shagar, not the foundational minds of Ravs Kook, Amital, and Lichtenstein

‘Bookworm,’ Tablet’s voracious new column: Alexandria swoons

An overlooked golden age of Jewish culture flowered in the cities of Istanbul, Edirne, Salonica, Izmir, Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, and Alexandria—where almost no Jews live today