Ideas

Ideas

What David Brooks and Bob Dylan teach Jews about heresy

Jewish celebrities who find solace in the New Testament ignite Jewish fears about assimilation and antisemitism.

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Ideas

The Persian winter solstice tradition of Yalda pairs perfectly with Hanukkah

A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without fried donuts.

First Person Ideas

The blessing and burden of bearing first witness to Jewish history

A reflection at the close of two decades on the D.C. Jewish news beat

8 candles, 80 opinions: The many meanings of an American Hanukkah

What my relatives’ Christmas celebrations taught me about observing Hanukkah

What’s everybody reading? Readers suggest the defining Jewish books of the 21st century

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Amid war and an election, the Jewish mainstream bends to the right — and not just on Israel

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On a roots journey from NYC to Poland, I packed my great-grandfather’s tallis

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After I fell behind in public school, I found my place in a Jewish school’s special education program

What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests

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