Mike Stoller, of the powerhouse songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, talks about cultural appropriation, writing for Elvis, and the idea of the ‘soundtrack of our lives’

Independence Day is doubly special for the legendary refusenik Natan Sharansky and his family. He sits down for a wide-ranging interview about his wife Avital, love among Jewish people, and the promise of freedom.

Elliott Abrams, Paul Berman, Robert Blecher, Hanin Ghaddar, Edward Luttwak, Lee Smith, Nathan Thrall, and Robert F. Worth on Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and the Islamic State, France and Russia, Obama and Netanyahu, Jihad and Cold War, and the future of the West

A conversation with the noted garbologist about Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Meir Kahane, being a drug dealer, and what’s wrong with NY today

And things Jews overhear while passing for white people

As his new play ‘A Happy End’ premieres in New York, the playwright reflects on the decisions that shape lives

A conversation with the former dissident and public intellectual, about the ‘Polish mentality,’ anti-Semitism, and ‘wearing Jewish glasses’

In Arafat’s shadow, he died holding an olive branch, after a long struggle for control of the Palestinian national movement

The innovative neuroscientist discusses how the Holocaust, famine, and other catastrophic experiences can affect our DNA

Israel’s lead security negotiator talks about the end of Oslo and the future of annexation

Netanyahu’s ex-national security adviser says Abbas has a choice between Israeli troops on the Jordan River—or no state at all

The point of Sept. 11 wasn’t to terrorize the West. It was to get the U.S. out of the Muslim world—and it worked.

The crusader against anti-Semitism on why 2013 was bad for the Jews—and why fixing the world starts with fixing ourselves

The influential artist talks about his Jewish Museum retrospective, ‘Mad’ magazine, and how the Shoah trumps art all of the time

His thoughts on Jewish strength, Jewish weakness, and the secret history of the Judeo-Episcopate in America

In Babel’s dark masterpiece, the Soviets fight the Poles and everybody hates the Jews

The master’s most autobiographical, and therefore most Jewish, book

The greatest living Jewish writer tackles vengeance

A book that should be read at Yizkor

A time capsule from the Warsaw ghetto

Tales that contain multitudes

The Jazz-playing, Jewish Johnny Appleseed of Weed

Marx and the Messiah in conversation

Why the Russian president has every reason to cross Barack Obama’s “red line” on Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East

Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map

Q&A: Tech guru Steve Blank talks about Thailand, secret high-tech, and the Valley’s Jewish moment

Why you should learn to spell the name of the mastermind of Poland’s relations with Germany and the Jews

The Polish long-form master and Kapuscinski heir talks about children in war and the fate of journalism

The Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer talks Kanye West, Jay-Z, and serving in the IDF

The intellectual pariah, author of two new books, on Noam Chomsky, BDS, the Holocaust, and Whitney Houston