The Sit-Down Ideas A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name The most popular names for Jewish kids are becoming more distinctively Jewish. By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 11, 2022 6:00 pm
The Sit-Down Ideas A writer faces his demons — and history’s — on a guided tour of Holocaust sites Novelist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl’s new book is a memoir about a visiting death camps on a package tour. July 3, 2022 7:00 am
The Sit-Down Ideas The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders A new biography explores the life of Jessie Sampter, a writer and poet who offered an alternative vision to macho Zionism. May 22, 2022 7:00 am
The Sit-Down Ideas How a rebranded 92nd Street Y sees its Jewish future By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 15, 2022 7:00 am
The Sit-Down Ideas How Jewish families prime girls for success in schools and careers By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 8, 2022 7:00 am
The Sit-Down Ideas How the big givers are looking at the post-pandemic Jewish world By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 3, 2022 6:30 am
The Sit-Down Ideas What Putin’s talking about when he talks about ‘denazification’ By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 27, 2022 9:00 am
The Sit-Down Ideas From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 6, 2022 5:35 pm
The Sit-Down Ideas What happened when Jewish students at Brown University stopped fighting about Israel and started listening to each other By Andrew Silow-Carroll December 21, 2021 12:21 pm
The Sit-Down Ideas The new chair of Yad Vashem wants to build a ‘firewall’ between politics and Holocaust remembrance. Can he? By Andrew Silow-Carroll November 9, 2021 12:24 pm