How Kalonymous Kalman Shapira’s ‘Holy Fire’ spread out of the Holocaust and into the non-Hasidic world

Civil-rights icon Theo Bikel left the SNCC, but never the cause of justice

When Ziporah Rothkopf left Korea, she changed her name, religion, and way of life. But she took her palate with her.

In and out of the fold of ultra-Orthodoxy, Shulem Deen and his father Dovid both pursued honest religious feeling

Sex and drugs and Passover Seders: In a new documentary, two sisters reflect on their years on The Farm in the 1970s

Joey Weisenberg’s music workshops—blending a democratic approach with a range of traditions—aim to boost engagement

Yossi Green, the Satmar-raised composer who found inspiration in Roberta Flack, writes Jewish spirituals

Shlomo Carlebach, who died 18 years ago this week, was a reflection of the pain of post-Holocaust Jewry

The cello is the most evocatively Jewish instrument. A new album, Sacred Time, features its rich sound in classical, liturgical, and Hasidic melodies

From the classic to the newfangled: haggadahs for Seders of every shape, size, and stripe

The musician Debbie Friedman, who died Sunday, helped inaugurate liberal Judaism’s sing-along style of worship and awaken her listeners to an inclusive, progressive, and accessible strain of spirituality

In Gal Beckerman’s telling, the story of the Soviet Jewry movement becomes one of modern Jewish history’s great dramas

A onetime scientist’s progression from atheism to spiritualism

The long, strange trip of the woman behind Heeb