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.

Ideas

Don’t think of mourning as the opposite of joy

The fast of Tisha b’Av is an exercise in converting pain into comfort, writes the executive director of Atra: Center for Rabbinic Innovation.

The Sit-Down Ideas

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

“Trump is not Hitler, by any means,” says Timothy Ryback. “But I think there are modalities that are very similar.”

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

The Knesset just voted against Palestinian statehood. Here’s all the ways that’s bad for Israel.

100 years after his death, Gen Z loves Franz Kafka. Now they ought to read him, too.

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