My father taught me Talmud as a boy—whether I wanted to learn it or not

As the High Holidays kick in, one formerly obese writer reflects on going kosher, long runs, and mastering his sins

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

‘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

A casualty of a naïve belief in Israel’s potential to adopt a secular Hebrew culture beyond Judaism’s defining religious difference, the Russian-born writer was also revived as a feminist icon in the 1970s

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