Ideas

Everything my college student needs to know he learned at synagogue

Shul prepares you for meeting strangers, handling disagreements and navigating the buffet, writes a rabbi at New York City’s Sutton Place Synagogue.

The Sit-Down Ideas

‘Golda’ focuses on a few grim weeks in the life of Israel’s first female prime minister. A biographer wants you to see the bigger picture.

Pnina Lahav sets out to show how a flawed leader can also be a great leader.

Ideas

An Israeli envoy looks back on 5 tumultuous and gratifying years in New York

The ties between Jews in the United States and Israel have been stretched, but they remain strong, writes the departing Acting Consul General in New York.

A rabbi answers her congregants’ question: Why do they hate us?

How the Bible anticipated Israel’s fight over the judiciary

Where conflict is news, stories of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation go missing

Performing Hasidic music, these women are transcending gender and the Orthodox-liberal divide

Our Southern kitchens are where Black and Jewish traditions come together

A novel of Sephardic life revives the Jewish family saga

Why Donniel Hartman sees a brighter Israeli future — in 2026

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