Maimonides
On Edge
As the Spertus Museum courts controversy, is it trying too hard—or not hard enough?
The Great Brain
Pseudo-science helps a family straddle the Sephardi-Ashkenazi divide
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
A reviewer comments, “Supposedly, the drunken, bloodthirsty crook was also an anti-Semite!”
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
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Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
