These gold bracelets have long been popular among Syrian Jewish girls. But their meaning has changed over the generations.

I grew up Orthodox, looking down on Reform Judaism. Then I came out as queer and changed my opinion.

Sea foraging for plants that grow along the shore has become a growing—and delicious—trend in Israel

Just because Trump said it doesn’t mean it’s not true: The Democratic Party is becoming unsalvageable

In Kyiv, the first meeting between the two world leaders of Jewish descent was short on accomplishments but big on symbolism

How the great kabbalist Isaac Luria changed the perception of the world without changing the world itself

How the Inquisition’s conversos defined Jewish religious and ethnic identity in ways that are still prevalent today

Simone de Beauvoir, commenting on the troubling case of executed French collaborationist Robert Brasillach, argued that the emotion has its civil and judicial uses. Now, 75 years after the liberation of Paris, is she right?