Ideas The life-changing magic of washing your hands (on Passover) A Jewish educator discovers new meaning in a seder ritual that a lot of people, well, pass over. By Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner April 3, 2023 1:00 pm
The Sit-Down Ideas ‘The Jewish Catalog’ turbocharged DIY Judaism. 50 years later, one of its editors is back with a ‘bookend.’ Fifty years after “The Jewish Catalog,” Michael Strassfeld sets out to describe the purpose of ritual and observance. April 2, 2023 6:45 am
Ideas An 1859 fight over how to make matzah has lessons about the threat of AI today When it comes to Passover, the machines won, writes a Jewish scholar focused on the future. March 31, 2023 12:58 pm
Ideas How a once-cautious Benjamin Netanyahu came to lead the most radical coalition in Israel’s history By Ofer Kenig March 24, 2023 10:36 am
Ideas My grandmother was a ‘Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,’ but she couldn’t solve the mystery of antisemitism By Avram Mlotek March 21, 2023 3:26 pm
Ideas How Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ broke taboos about interfaith families By Emily Schneider March 20, 2023 2:12 pm
Ideas Which side are you on: Jewish American or American Jew? By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 19, 2023 7:00 am
Ideas Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on By Jacques Berlinerblau March 14, 2023 4:45 pm
Ideas How the late actor Topol turned Tevye into a Zionist By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 9, 2023 3:11 pm
First Person Ideas Standing on Albania’s Jew Street, I learned firsthand the country’s lifesaving culture of hospitality By Naomi Tomky March 8, 2023 2:01 pm