Michael Steinhardt
Q&A With Abe Foxman, Head of the Anti-Defamation League
The crusader against anti-Semitism on why 2013 was bad for the Jews—and why fixing the world starts with fixing ourselves
Israelis to U.S. Jews: Stay Out of Peace Process
Poll reveals Israelis don’t want leaders considering American Jews’ positions
Questions About the Mishneh Torah Purchase
The prize piece in the Steinhardt Judaica collection doesn’t go to auction
Steinhardt Collection at Sotheby’s
The philanthropist’s sale of his extensive personal Judaica keeps Jewish culture in the limelight
Why We Are Here (Why Are We Here?)
After one day of Birthright Israel, hashing out why all expenses are paid
Tablet Is Going to Israel
Birthright Israel will take 40,000 young Jews on a free trip to the Jewish state this year. We’re joining them.
Lightning Rod
Admired or reviled—but never ignored—how has Peter Beinart created a firestorm with well-worn ideas about Israel and American Jews?
Friday Night Lights
Ten years after Sept. 11, in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that hasn’t had a dedicated Jewish sanctuary since before the Civil War, a new synagogue opens
Out of the Ghetto
Long relegated to either Jewish institutions or self-contained collections, Judaica is finding a new home in mainstream museums of art
Hebrew School
The Hebrew Language Academy, New York City’s first Hebrew-language charter school, opened two years ago. Now its backers—including financier Michael Steinhardt—want to replicate the model nationwide.
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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- Haim Rocks Out at Coachella
- Susan Sontag Documentary to Debut at the Tribeca Film Festival
