How Jews discovered the allure of the beach—from Far Rockaway to Tel Aviv

How Jews observe Tisha B’Av in Rome, where the Arch of Titus commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem

This Tisha B’Av, I’ll be mourning for a different site of spiritual importance in Jerusalem

Forget her Israel gaffes and focus on her disinterest in observable reality, a troubling feature of her entitled generation

How the Jewish neoliberal éminence grise of Emmanuel Macron’s government became both Marine Le Pen’s perfect enemy and her accidental inspiration

How a grueling 56-mile ultramarathon in South Africa became a stage for racial reconciliation—and national belonging for immigrant Jews

Bookworm: 2018 Russia, 2008 Russia, 19th-century Russia, and America all star in the new novel by the author of ‘All the Sad Young Literary Men’

How a tiny enclave of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan produced some of the former Soviet world’s richest men

The great author, who would have turned 119 this weekend, used and abused his Jewish friend Harold Loeb. Why did Loeb take it?