Purim reminds us it’s unusual for Jews to indulge in recreational boozing—one reason Polish nobles liked having them run taverns

In Lahore a Facebook group dedicated to atheists and agnostics serves a silent minority in the world’s other religious nation-state

But now the country’s Jewish community is divided between those lining up with Moscow and those joining the revolution in Kiev

Dudu Tassa immerses himself in the Arabic music of his late grandfather and reinterprets it for modern audiences

Peter and Martine Halban run England’s most cosmopolitan and finely curated Jewish and Middle Eastern-themed literary press

Somehow, the mangling of the Broadway actress’s name may be the best thing to happen to her underappreciated career

In recent novels, sermons, and Bible-study guides, evangelicals and mainline Protestants alike find inspiration in the biblical tale

Why read the Talmud as a secular Jew? In part, for its expression of an independent Jewish creativity and spirituality.

We publish a comic holiday newsletter for our friends. Recently it started to feel like work, until I learned the meaning of ‘mitzvah.’