Sunday Features

RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Israel has a decade of lessons to offer.

Since Israel’s health minister decided in 2013 to stop requiring fluoridation, pediatric dental health has worsened.

From ‘A Real Pain’ to ‘The Brutalist’ and beyond, Jewish movies were everywhere in 2024. What does it mean?

Amid widespread Jewish anxiety over Israel and antisemitism, Jewish movies are once again ruling the awards conversation.

Timothée Chalamet doesn’t talk much about his Judaism. But it turns out his grandfather was an important Jewish writer from the Bronx.

The A-list Jewish actor was named after his maternal grandfather, Harold “Hal” Flender, who wrote about the Holocaust and interviewed many important Jews of his time, including Isaac Bashevis Singer and Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Salvador Dali’s little-known series about the founding of Israel comes to a Holocaust museum on Long Island

‘The Brutalist,’ the epic new movie getting Oscar buzz, is built from the stories of postwar Jewish architects

‘September 5’ focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack on Israeli Olympians

Despite ceasefire, residents of northern Israel are wary of return, fearing another Oct. 7

What happened to relics of Syria’s Jewish history? Assad’s collapse spurs efforts to assess the damage.

An Israeli cafe chain launched by and for Oct. 7 survivors is expanding to more cities

How a Jewish teen’s description of New York City life in 1945 found a contemporary audience of millions

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