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Observance

The Modern-day Appeal of Tu B’Shevat

The Jewish New Year of the Trees demands little of us, but offers us a chance to connect our roots with good causes, new rituals, and recipes

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · January 30, 2018
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Observance

In the California Desert, Wilderness Torah Takes Judaism Back to Nature

Founder Zelig Golden, an environmental lawyer turned rabbi-in-training, tries ‘to reconnect the Jewish people’ to the earth

By Merissa Nathan Gerson · December 3, 2013
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Food

How To Make a Salad That Brings Together the Flavors of Ancient Israel

Filled with figs, dates, pomegranates, and olives, it’s perfect for Tu B’Shevat—or any time of year

By Joan Nathan · January 20, 2016

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The Scroll

Milk Can Memories

A new documentary about the brave archivists who kept a secret history of the Warsaw Ghetto shows how we can preserve the memory of the Holocaust after the last generation of survivors

 

By Rokhl Kafrissen · January 18, 2019
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The Scroll

A Centuries-Old Green Delicacy for Tu B’Shevat

A delicious Sephardic dish and a testament to Jewish renewal rescued from the Spanish Middle Ages

By Helene Jawhara Piñer · January 18, 2019
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The Scroll

Tikkun Olam, Y’all

Rabbi Ira Sanders of Arkansas, little-known Civil Rights hero

By Karen Iris Tucker · January 18, 2019
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The Scroll

The Women’s March Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the ‘White Jews’ Are

Singling out ‘white Jews’ isn’t progress, it’s just more of the same prejudice and exclusion from the Women’s March

By Lizzie Skurnick · January 17, 2019
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The Scroll

Albania’s Post-Communist Rebirth Gets a Jewish Twist

A visit to the only Jewish museum in Albania—Europe’s most Muslim nation and Islam’s most secular

 

By Theo Canter · January 17, 2019

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Notebook

From ‘Y’ to ‘J’: The History of Jewish Community Centers

How YMHAs, followed by synagogue-centers, and finally JCCs have tried—in different ways—to balance Judaism and Jewishness, by bringing Jews together in intellectual, spiritual, and physical pursuits

By Jenna Weissman Joselit · January 18, 2019
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Family

Tu B’Shevat Books to Share With Kids

A reading list reflecting the environmentalist values of this underappreciated holiday

By Marjorie Ingall · January 18, 2019
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Notebook

Match Game

Ep. 165: Director Scott Ellis on working on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ and Pittsburgh matchmaker Tova Weinberg on what men and women really want

By Unorthodox · January 17, 2019
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Composting

By Galit Dahan Carlibach

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Middle East

Understanding ‘Nofuzophobia’

The roots and legacy of Iranian resentment of the West, part of a weeklong look at 40 years of the revolution

By Thamar E. Gindin · January 17, 2019
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Middle East

The First Jew I Met in Iran

Face to face with the challenges of living a double life under the Iranian theocracy

By Majid Rafizadeh · January 16, 2019
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Middle East

Arafat and the Ayatollahs

The PLO’s greatest single contribution to the Iranian Revolution was the formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but the Palestinian leader’s involvement with Iran didn’t end there

By Tony Badran · January 16, 2019

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Book Reviews

Writing Her Revolt

In the 40 years after the Iranian Revolution, some women memoirists came to see obedience as the opposite of goodness

By Gina B. Nahai · January 16, 2019
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Culture News

Making It

As Norman Podhoretz turns 89 today, he looks back on the long journey from Brooklyn to Manhattan

By Lee Smith · January 16, 2019
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Music

Guard It With Your Life

How Jewish musicians preserved—and are now saving—Persian music

By Asher Shasho Levy · January 16, 2019