In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis—debating the origins of the omer—explore the sanctity of different forms of wheat. Plus: Can seeds found in elephant dung be made clean by replanting?

Why American Jews changed their family names during the interwar years

As an educator and feminist activist, Alice Shalvi has been a major force for decades. At 92, she shares her life story in her new memoir, ‘Never a Native.’

The first Jewish member of Congress was a virulent nativist and anti-immigration troll who ended his life in an insane asylum. He was also acclaimed as the most brilliant orator of his age.

Campus Week: How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?

Campus Week: Jewish populations are falling at schools like Harvard and Yale. Should we care?

Why chasing game through the forest remains the most brutal, boring, indubitably non-Jewish pastime on the planet

Campus Week: Five alternatives to wasting your time and money on a worthless degree

Campus Week: A memoir of discomfort—and progress—as a graduate student at the University of Michigan in the 1960s