Books

A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas

Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point” touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from Ellis Island to Galveston.

Ideas

Who killed Jesus? It wasn’t the Jews, writes a scholar of Roman law.

Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a “misreading” that has often come back to haunt Jews come Easter time.

Ideas

Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews

Horn has launched a nonprofit, Mosaic Persuasion, to advance her vision.

The Sit-Down

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

Ideas

Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.

Ideas

Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power

Ideas

The Lower East Side anti-Jewish riot that changed the way Jews do politics

Ideas

Three new books capture an era when Jews were (literally) on the same page

Israel

A new book about Oct. 7 aims to depict the humanity behind the horror

New York

The Jewish mother who became a crime boss in Gilded Age New York

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