Episode 133: Former Jehovah’s Witness Linda Curtis on being shunned by the religion, Rachel Simmons on empowering young girls today, and more

In making animal sacrifices, says this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, ancient Jews learned the importance of doing religious actions with deliberate purpose

The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia marks the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth with an exhibit about his personal life and social activism

A court decision in France finally ends one of the most dispiriting controversies in modern intellectual history. Or does it?

Lessons from World War II Poland for us today

A love letter in 70 lines

How a Jewish journalist came to spend years writing a book about the Protestant Reformation

Twenty years after his death, why the German-language writer and memoirist yearned for an era he never knew

Bookworm: On his own time and not on Mr. Hand’s time, Sean Penn composed ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,’ but what for?