Top 10 Jewish Books of 2023
This year has been an absolute feast for readers. But with so many great books out there, it can be hard to know where to...
Opinion Interview with Dina Porat | Do Israelis Want Revenge?
As chief historian at Yad Vashem from 2011 to 2021, and now the institution’s senior academic advisor, Dina Porat has the chops—the moral authority, if you will—to poke into dark and troubling corners of the Israeli national psyche.
Interview | How Israel’s Allies Are Addressing the War On Campus
“How can Jewish and Israeli students feel safe on campus when it’s considered acceptable to justify or even celebrate the death of Jewish children? “
Interview | Beyond Bagels & Lox
Raised in the small Jewish community of Honolulu, Hawaii, in the 1970s, bestselling author Allegra Goodman grew up far from Jewish delis, JCCs and other...
From the Newsletter | Shana Tova! Let’s See the Fruits!
It’s the season of return—literally.
Earlier this week, making plans to schlep the family back to the New York shul I grew up in, as we...
Roundtable | Robots Get Religion
In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but it’s nothing—at least, as yet—compared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination.
Partly Cloudy Reads for Your Beach Bag
When anxieties are rippling through the culture, novelists can’t help picking up the signal.
The End of Affirmative Action?
Amy Schwartz on today’s Supreme Court decisions and what they portend for affirmative action in America.
Is Ice Cream Good for the Jews?
If ice cream is actually good for you, that’s just the latest of a heap of reasons to eat dairy on the upcoming Shavuot holiday.
The Key Judicial Reforms Tearing Israel Apart
Israeli’s judicial system differs from the U.S.’s in more than just details. Who’s protesting what, who has the upper hand, and what, exactly, is on the table?
Meir Shalev’s Distinctive Israeli Voice
Though Shalev is gone, he deserves a wider reading in America.
Opinion Interview with Dahlia Lithwick | Do You Really Want That Abortion?
Deep-red Indiana isn’t a state you’d ordinarily look to as the leading edge of post-Roe v. Wade abortion politics—but a legal case there called into question whether Reform and Conservative Jewst need to be taken seriously as religious objectors.