Ep. 196: Modern Ritual’s Samantha Frank and Rena Singer, Saul Austerlitz on ‘Friends,’ and Wesleyan President Michael Roth

With a sugary, crunchy topping, this noodle kugel could be a dessert as well as a side dish

How interfaith couples navigate the Jewish holidays

Some of the most brutal and powerful officials in Damascus apparently saw Nir Rosen as a useful instrument. The question is why—and for what?

Five takeaways to ponder as we wait for the game of political Jenga to begin

The Israeli opposition leader has a very different vision for American and Israeli Jews than the current government

Uncovered: the earliest known version of the Hebrew song

At last night’s rally, reviving the spirit of Frances Perkins

Boro Park, Brooklyn, late 1970s, at the nexus of a cultish hippiedom and ultra-Orthodoxy