A new campaign strategy for Anthony Weiner, courtesy of Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, and more
The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90
As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar test
Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and Mossad
The Bluths, returning this weekend for a fourth season, are the Jewish world’s archetypal family
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
Serving as an Army chaplain gave one cantor a new view of the holiday, and a belief in a brighter future
Video: Astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo’s home reflects her mixed heritage—and wide-ranging spirituality
This week’s Talmud reading prompts strikingly contemporary questions about observance and belief
You might not have heard of Naftali Imber, but you’ve heard his most famous work
A museum puts the act of Torah creation in full view
In elementary school, it’s girls gone vile
Edda Servi Machlin introduced Italian-Jewish cooking to America
Everything you ever wanted to know about the holidays
Mud-bathing with mom, in the latest chapter of an illustrated memoir
An aspiring rabbi interprets the Torah on her fingernails
Once a staple but long out of fashion, schmaltz makes a comeback
How to decorate a sukkah with no budget and no talent
Meet the first-generation Jews of Ghana
A star chef tries his hand at giving the holiday a signature dish
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Feast of Tabernacles
A look at the etrog, the lemony fruit that helps define Sukkot
In Sweden for Rosh Hashanah, the author does PR for Yom Kippur
The third and final installment of a conversion story
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
Plus Israeli electric car manufacturer runs of gas money?
A rabbi and a serviceman meet while helping homeless vets
The world cries ‘fowl’ about his culinarily curious choice of grub
The global love for Jewish caricatures endures
On the Guardian columnist’s response to the terror attack in London
Plus drones, bacon, Billy Joel, and the Church of Scotland
Israel takes another small step toward Haredi conscription
…that he doesn’t want them to do comedy
We profiled Medea Benjamin back last year
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.