What is the future of Judaism in a world full of choices?

Many narratives from Star Wars and Jewish history run parallel. Will ‘The Force Awakens’ get back to basics?

New research in the ongoing academic debate says no

An explosive debate erupts from footnotes suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans

An excerpt from ‘The Newton Papers’ reveals the scientist’s long-hidden, anti-rationalist, heretical obsession with alchemy

Two new books explore the complex legacy and rich life of the great Jewish historian of conversos and Marranos

The Montreal face-off between Yaacov Herzog and Arnold Toynbee offers ways of discussing the Jewish state that still feel fresh

‘How Jewish is Jewish History?’ by Moshe Rosman

A masterful encyclopedia sums up our history and culture but raises the question of where Jewishness lies today

A look at the Afghan Geniza sheds new light on Jewish history

How the British Marxist and anti-Zionist, who died last week, influenced the writing of Jewish history

The Yale historian explains his masterwork and its transnational narrative of the Holocaust

Painter Ward Shelley plays with the history of Judaism in ‘The People of the Book,’ a series of giant, whimsical flowcharts that tell a story

Three cemeteries belonging to Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in North America, are tucked away in Manhattan, a visible legacy of New York City’s long-ago Jewish past

Stifling debate on the Nakba—the Arabic word for catastrophe and how Palestinians refer to Israel’s founding—prevents a free and open discussion of the historical record