Ideas

Ideas

He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap.

The Sit-Down Ideas

How much can Israelis take? A trauma expert finds out

Bruria Adini studies the resilience of a society under and on the attack.

Ideas

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, there’s a way forward for pro-Israel progressives

In the fight for economic fairness for all, Jews shouldn’t have to give up on defending their particular interests, writes a long-time contributor to Dissent magazine.

‘Climate anxiety’ isn’t a fad. For Jewish teens like me, it’s our inspiration.

Ana Levy-Lyons, a former Unitarian Universalist minister and future rabbi, wants to cure what ails the secular left

70 years ago, these beach reads explained Jews to America

Jewish teens like me sent a message after the Run for Their Lives attack: We will not cower.

These therapists give a name to the way Jewish distress has been ignored since Oct. 7: ‘Traumatic invalidation’

I joined the crowds for Boulder’s Run for Their Lives on Sunday. I’m worried about next week.

As my hometown reeled from an attack to ‘free Palestine,’ I found hope at my son’s graduation in Israel

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