What we learn about Israel’s ethnocentrism by looking at groups inspired by Zionism

Full of unlikable characters each representing a different half-baked perspective, ‘Diaspora’ is offensive to everyone and no one

Connecting to my Jewish identity in the South of France

A nine-piece band belts out traditional Jewish music for one jazzy night

Birthright Israel inspires other countries to launch diaspora trips

Why the Jewish state has more say than the Diaspora over what the country stands for and where it is going

A tiny island off Cancún in the Mexican Yucatán is the modern Jewish world in microcosm

Can Zionism and U.S. liberalism coexist under Netanyahu?

The apparent abstraction of Talmudic rulings, immune to the vagaries of history, are also a key to Jewish survival

In the Talmud, nostalgic, biblical, divine explanations override accurate secular history and chronology

In staking claims about the validity of Jewish identity, the rabbis show that the Diaspora has existed for nearly as long as Judaism

What the recent controversy over one rabbi’s legitimacy really represents

In his new book, Israeli journalist Ari Shavit argues that without Israel, secular Jewish life will vanish. Six American Jews reply.

Daf Yomi: The one protection God granted the Jews was to scatter them, so that no single enemy could destroy them all at once

In André Aciman’s new Harvard Square, an Egyptian-born Jew and a Tunisian Muslim meet their limits