The world lost a towering figure in the field of design this year. Graphic artist, illustrator, teacher, icon maker, art director and creative thinker Milton Glaser passed away after a long illness on June 26, his 91st birthday. ...
Hanukkah’s great culinary divide runs right across my brother Paul Freedman’s dining room table in suburban Pelham, New York. ...
"Jews have traditionally perceived everything as miraculous." ...
As Devorah Halberstam, a prominent local activist, drives through Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in her white 2017 Acura, she grows increasingly animated. ...
A few of our JPVP voters share their reflections on the state of America today. ...
Aron Wieder, a Satmar Hasid active in New York politics, finds himself in a complicated position. ...
One perk of working at a Jewish magazine is getting Jewish publications from all over the world in the office mail. ...
One day last spring, I got a call from a woman I didn’t know, asking if I objected—as she did—to a work of mine being included in The New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980-2015 along with works by men identified as notable abusers by the #MeToo movement. ...
When COVID-19 reached Israel last March, I was not unduly worried. ...
In writing about the unspeakable mass atrocities targeting the Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China, I’m reminded of the words of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and conscience of humanity, that “silence in the face of evil is complicity with evil itself”—and that, as ...