The cab-driving poet and his wife marched alone together in the Israel Day Parade
Members of the Mimouna Club have made it their mission to learn about Jews and Jewish life as a way of learning about themselves
From smashing Google Glasses to rejecting peace talks, failing to understand natural rights is leading to some very dark places
Abbas is facing an internal challenge to his leadership, and that—not Israeli housing plans—is why he’s bailing on Kerry
The apparent abstraction of Talmudic rulings, immune to the vagaries of history, are also a key to Jewish survival
A visit to Kiev’s Jewish institutions reveals Jews there are less concerned about their neighbors at home than the bully next door
Author Alfie Kohn bucks conventional wisdom about parenting. He makes some good points, when he’s not simply being contrarian.
Three years after Mubarak’s fall, the country is toying with global irrelevance—except as a possible terror exporter
In the Talmud, nostalgic, biblical, divine explanations override accurate secular history and chronology
When oversensitivity meets entitlement, there’s a reality-show lesson about the struggles of misfits
To the Talmudic rabbis, religion was not opposed to the law but deeply connected to its study, even if dialogue wins over decree
Disengagement from a region whose power structures are predicated on American management is a recipe for disaster
For a hundred generations Jews lived in anticipation of redemption, a historical tension that continues to define Judaism
In 1936, Nazis celebrated Easter with Judenrein eggs—but a new book of family letters shows the crisis didn’t translate
My grandfather told me his hometown no longer existed. But I found it—and finally came to appreciate my own heritage.
At the intersection of artifice and experience comes a beguiling fantasia on Jewish themes, ‘I Pity the Poor Immigrant’
Before writing a novel about the gangster’s immigrant yearnings, I went digging in the dark corners where he lived
My father used to share his harrowing childhood memories every year at the Seder. Now I make sure his memories will survive.
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
