Books

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 Ideas

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.”

Ideas

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

Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped in France under the Nazi occupation.

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

The Sit-Down

Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state

Ideas

A history of a pivotal era in Palestine wins a top Jewish book prize

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