Ideas

In this time of great stress, it’s important to grieve

Mourning can restore individuals and communities to themselves, writes a ritual leader in San Francisco’s East Bay.

"What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine," an exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum, features Norman Mingo's 1973 cover illustration for MAD Magazine #156 depicting Alfred E. Newman as a character in "Fiddler on the Roof." (JTA Photo)

Ideas

Americana meets meshuggeneh at a museum exhibit about MAD magazine

The Norman Rockwell Museum show about the influential humor magazine presents a merger of two sensibilities: gentle and crude, rural and urban — and gentile and Jewish.

Ideas

Why the Entebbe rescue almost didn’t happen — and how Israel is still wrestling with the same tough questions 48 years later

Before the raid in Uganda, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres argued over whether to negotiate with terrorists.

When the political stakes are high, Judaism doesn’t place all the responsibility on a single charismatic leader

Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state

How to disagree as Jews in a time of deep schisms

The battle over Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is over the future of church-state separation

The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great.

In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing

Israelis are getting religion, in spite of a coercive Chief Rabbinate

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