Ideas

At a time of loss and grief, this Jewish ritual says you don’t have to go it alone

Tisha B’Av has become a doorway into all of our collective sorrow, writes the cofounder and creative director of Jewish Studio Project.

Ilona Elek-Schacherer, Helene Mayer and Ellen Müller-Preis

Ideas

Remembering the three Jewish women fencing champions who defied Hitler at the 1936 ‘Nazi Olympics’

A Jewish memorabilia collector recalls the Jewish trifecta of women athletes who won medals in foil at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Ideas

It’s not just J.D. Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’: Jewish communities also undervalue people without children

“Be fruitful and multiply” obscures the important ways different people contribute to the future of their communities, write two scholars who have focused on Jewish ethics, family and infertility.

Don’t think of mourning as the opposite of joy

A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

My stepfather Joe Lieberman set one path as a Jew in politics. Will his many successors follow it?

I hear American Jews threatening to cut off Israeli haredim who shun army service. That would be a mistake.

Handing power to the next generation is hard. This week’s Torah portion argues for its necessity.

Why Jews are excited — and nervous — about having so many Jews in the Democratic ticket mix

A museum exhibit on Jewish food and humor puts the ‘borscht’ in Borscht Belt

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