The Tenth Man
The shul on Stanton Street outlasted others in a neighborhood once dense with them. One writer spent his summer trying to find out why. An excerpt.
Slaving Away
On Passover, we recall that Moses was a stranger in a strange land. An illustrated column imagines how the story might sound in a contemporary Israeli classroom.
In a Loop
Starting the Torah cycle anew and reckoning with Moses’ unfulfilled desire to reach the promised land
Brave Soldier
The day a Jewish immigrant in Texas held high her American flag and took on the Klan
Jewish Abortion Technician
After a young woman’s 1871 death, the press took aim at an immigrant from Plotsk
Words of Our Fathers
What a 1942 essay contest revealed about immigrants’ lives, in the Old World and the New
Ben-Gurion
The Tenth Man
The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place
Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
