Ideas

As a Holocaust educator, I’ve grappled with same questions Tim Walz explored — and that’s reassuring

The vice presidential candidate’s master’s thesis, asking whether the lessons of the Holocaust are universal or particular, raised questions that are familiar to educators today, writes a Chicago-area high school teacher.

Ideas

I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

An Israeli rabbi who travels abroad to circumcise Jewish babies wonders why Ireland is cracking down on a ritual sacred for Jews.

The Sit-Down Ideas

Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages

The linguist’s celebration of the polyglot city inspires a series of shows at Manhattan’s Little Island.

My son died on Oct. 7. This Tisha B’Av, I’m thinking about how our greatest threat comes from within.

At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for

At a time of loss and grief, this Jewish ritual says you don’t have to go it alone

Ilona Elek-Schacherer, Helene Mayer and Ellen Müller-Preis

Remembering the three Jewish women fencing champions who defied Hitler at the 1936 ‘Nazi Olympics’

It’s not just J.D. Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’: Jewish communities also undervalue people without children

Don’t think of mourning as the opposite of joy

A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

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