On the Bookshelf

From the classic to the newfangled: haggadahs for Seders of every shape, size, and stripe

Song and Prayer

The musician Debbie Friedman, who died Sunday, helped inaugurate liberal Judaism’s sing-along style of worship and awaken her listeners to an inclusive, progressive, and accessible strain of spirituality

Last Exit

In Gal Beckerman’s telling, the story of the Soviet Jewry movement becomes one of modern Jewish history’s great dramas

Radical Mystic

A onetime scientist’s progression from atheism to spiritualism

Among the Holy Schleppers

The long, strange trip of the woman behind Heeb