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How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

“Sons and Daughters” is being called “the last great Yiddish novel.”

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The Sit-Down Ideas

A Jewish atheist calls out evangelicals for undermining democracy — and Christianity

Jonathan Rauch sees a “MAGA-fied” church that is not holding up its end of the bargain in defending the Constitution.

The Sit-Down Ideas

What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests

Nick Lemann, dean emeritus of the university’s journalism school, sees a disconnect among parents, students, faculty, donors and the administration.

Allergic to ‘God-talk’? The former head of a rabbinical seminary wants a word.

Meet two rabbis who are trying to fight ‘toxic polarization’ — one Jewish text at a time

How a 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron foreshadowed Oct. 7

two Israeli writers

Why writer Etgar Keret wants to get back to Israel as soon as he can

The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate

A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages

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