Ideas AI, pluralism and Israel: What North American rabbis spoke about in their High Holiday sermons Antisemitism, climate change and book bans also got attention in synagogues this Rosh Hashanah. By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 22, 2023 10:30 am
Ideas The buzzy novel ‘Whalefall’ offers a modern spin on the ancient Book of Jonah Llike the story read on Yom Kippur, the novel is about lessons learned in the belly of a great fish, writes a scholar at Yeshiva University. September 21, 2023 11:09 am
Ideas This High Holiday pastry connects me to the relatives I loved and the ones I lost In its glistening, fragrant glory, fluden is a key to the door of memory, writes JTA’s Germany correspondent. September 18, 2023 12:56 pm
Ideas Why is the Ukraine war more Jewish than the Iranian uprising? A year after Mahsa Amini’s death, that should change. By Loolwa Khazoom September 15, 2023 10:30 am
Ideas Mayim Bialik’s guide to embracing the new Jewish year By Mayim Bialik September 14, 2023 4:31 pm
Ideas Change is hard and threatening. That’s why we need Rosh Hashanah. By Rabba Sara Hurwitz September 13, 2023 1:30 pm
Ideas Unetaneh Tokef, the High Holidays’ roll call of ruin, is heartbreakingly real for the Ukrainian Jews I’ve gotten to know By Alex Weisler September 12, 2023 5:00 pm
Ideas How ‘This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared’ became a High Holidays classic By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 10, 2023 6:45 am
Ideas How a religious revival fed the demise of the Midtown kosher deli By Ted Merwin September 7, 2023 1:14 pm
Ideas Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in. By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann September 5, 2023 5:18 pm