In the Bay Area, Karaite Jews struggle to build a future in America

Welcoming the Jewish New Year with stories about new beginnings from our hosts

For terrorists and activists alike, an identity addiction spells trouble

Three weeks ago, Shimon Peres sat for what he intended to be a Rosh Hashanah-timed discussion about the state of the world. It was also his final one.

The presidential debate pitted an outdated, ‘tough-guy’ version of masculinity against the modern era, which is upon us anyway

A wedding present, a family history, and Ukraine’s dark 20th century, 75 years after Babi Yar

Happy New Year from a doo-wop singer who opened for Jimi at Woodstock, then became a biblical scholar

The infamous Lipstadt-Irving libel battle gets a trim new David Hare film adaptation starring Rachel Weisz—just in time for the rise of Trump

In an excerpt from ‘The People and the Books,’ a portrait of Glückel of Hameln, the 17th-century Jewish woman whose access to Judaism’s foundational stories was through the Tsenerene, a Yiddish retelling of the Torah