Sundown: Signs of Struggle in Kletzky Murder

Plus Jewish summer camps get their frack on, free Turkish circumcisions, and more

Frenemies

An anthology on the concept of philo-Semitism shows that ‘Jew lovers’ have often been just a shade better than anti-Semites—and sometimes no better at all

What a Country

Twenty years after the fall of the USSR, the 1990s wave of Russian-Jewish immigrants is a reliably Republican voting bloc. But as their children assimilate, Russian Jews’ politics get harder to pin down.

Abraham Cahan Speaks

On his 150th birthday, an imaginary interview with the founding editor of the ‘Jewish Daily Forward’

The Long Goodbye

Norman Podhoretz unravels the mystery of Jewish attachment to liberalism

Words of Our Fathers

What a 1942 essay contest revealed about immigrants’ lives, in the Old World and the New

Staged Rebellion

Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin inspired fury and adulation