Books

The Jewish mother who became a crime boss in Gilded Age New York

“Marm” Mandelbaum is the subject of a new biography by Margalit Fox, the celebrated obituary writer.

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

A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.”

Ideas

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

Oren Kessler’s “Palestine 1936” tells the “story of two nationalisms.”

The Sit-Down

In dark times, is a dystopian Jewish novel just what we need?

New York

Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of

New York

In his latest novel, James McBride defuses the ‘dynamite’ of Black-Jewish relations

New York

A visit to the Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum inspires a new picture book

Four Questions

Did you hear the one about the Jewish comedians who set out to explain Israel?

New York Nosh

The ‘iconic’ Jewish foods that make New York New York

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New York

10 treasures from the New York Public Library’s 125-year-old Jewish collection

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