Selihot, the pre-High Holidays service often held at midnight, has fallen on hard times recently. This new prayerbook aims to change that. ...
When the state of Israel turned 30 in 1978, its supporters in Hollywood threw a star-studded party. What changed? ...
Every summer, Jennifer Weiner serves up a quintessential summer novel, effortlessly blending the cozy and the topical and usually sprinkling in some Cape Cod flavor. ...
An elderly Holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven. ...
Lori Zabar's new book reveals the family history behind the iconic grocery store. ...
Thirty years ago, as the Soviet Union was coming apart and its hold on Eastern Europe was loosening, democracy appeared ascendant not just in Europe but worldwide. For advocates of democratic government, the 20th century concluded on a triumphant note. Today that note is a distant, barely audible signal from ...
A European country bombed into rubble. Refugees streaming across multiple borders. ...
In her latest young adult novel, The Assignment, author Liza Wiemer asks readers what they would do to stop antisemitism—or any form of hate or injustice. ...
The most formative experience of my college years wasn’t in a classroom. ...
In the midst of a long conversation about men, women, love, sex and his own adolescence, the late Amos Oz reminds his interlocutor Shira Hadad that “the most important word in our whole conversation today is ‘sometimes.’” ...
Almost a half-century before Donald Trump signed on to the fraudulent notion that President Barack Obama’s American citizenship and constitutional legitimacy were suspect, Robert Welch (1899-1985) reached an equally alarming conclusion about the president of his day, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. ...
The rabbinic tradition speaks of a Jerusalem above and a Jerusalem below. ...