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A new book made me appreciate Jewish Sunday schools — and the volunteer women who have powered them

Laura Yares looks back at the 19th-century educators, mostly women, who developed a new model for teaching American kids about Judaism.

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin wants Jews to own up to the corrosive power of shame

In “Shanda,” a leading feminist writes about her immigrant Jewish family and the secrets they carried through their lives.

The Sit-Down Ideas

A scholar sees a common root for antisemitism and racism: ‘Christian supremacy’

Fordham University’s Magda Teter says “the Jews will not replace us” ideology of the racist right is a legacy of church doctrine.

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch

Why a liberal Zionist rabbi isn’t taking to the streets over Israel’s judicial reform plan

‘The Jewish Catalog’ turbocharged DIY Judaism. 50 years later, one of its editors is back with a ‘bookend.’

A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

How Jewish comedy found religion, from Philip Roth to ‘Broad City’

How the Holocaust is remembered in the land of Anne Frank

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

A law professor worries Israel could become the next Hungary

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