Ideas

What I told my children when our synagogue was graffitied with a swastika

“This is the complicated, real truth of what it means to be Jewish in America right now,” writes a mother and rabbi’s wife from suburban Philadelphia.

Ideas

Growing up Jewish on the Upper West Side ‘when housing was a human right’

Jennifer Baum’s hybrid memoir, “Just City,” recalls her childhood in a subsidized co-op on West 96th Street.

The Sit-Down Ideas

Why Rabbi Shai Held says love is the cornerstone of Jewish belief and practice

Forget what you’ve been taught about the differences between Judaism and Christianity, a co-founder of Hadar writes in a new book.

Keith Siegel grew up in North Carolina and moved to Israel. Now he’s a hostage in Gaza.

Purim features a fast before the festival. It’s a ritual I need in these dark times.

How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country

How do we celebrate Purim in a time of mourning? We’re not the first Jews to face that question.

For every looted Schiele, there are countless looted Jewish artifacts. They need to be returned to their rightful owners, too.

On this International Women’s Day, I celebrate the generosity of my forebears in Exodus

Why an Israeli policy expert says talk of a two-state solution is dangerously premature

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