My youthful admiration for religious teachers, and my desire to please and even emulate them, ultimately helped me connect with myself as a Jewish adult

With surprising analogous thinking, ancient Talmudic sages tackled very modern questions—by accident or foresight, depending on how liberal your views—of transgender rights, the rights of unborn fetuses, women’s rights, and wealth distribution

Mayor De Blasio may be killing Manhattan’s storied neighborhood, once dense with high-rise factories, its sidewalks crowded with garmentos and push boys

Episode 95: Jamie Kirchick on the end of Europe and Muslim comedian Negin Farsad on making jokes in the Trump era

Why Harvard commencement speaker Mark Zuckerberg is America’s Public Enemy No. 1

Confusion, shame, hope, eviction, love, ping-pong, and good posters in the Hebron hills

The Jewish Museum’s current show gives viewers a second chance to ‘see her light,’ and to see the socialite and troubled daughter behind the art

Rokhl’s Golden City: Bringing Yiddish children to life, while 1970s New York drops dead

A descendant of the New York School brings cantorial poetics to his new collection, ‘In Memory of an Angel’