Ideas

The Sit-Down Ideas

When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

In a new history, Geoffrey Levin explores the internal Jewish battles over Israel and the “Palestine question.”

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My ‘transgressive’ Holocaust novel is still stirring debate, 20 years later

The author of “The Holocaust Kid” writes about the critical and scholarly resistance to ruminations on the Shoah that refuse to be reverent.

Ideas

I’m an Israeli artist of Moroccan descent. Is the Holocaust my story to tell?

During a residency at Yad Vashem, a painter confronts his own place in the Jewish people’s national trauma.

When Elie Wiesel came to my summer camp, and what he taught me about speaking the unspeakable

King Heschel

When Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught my dad to pray with his feet

Jewish liturgy includes a curse against our enemies. We can be OK with that.

In hopeless times, we need to the courage to speak up — and to listen

What Jews are feeling now is an inheritance of values — and trauma

The best Jewish books I read in 2023

In these last months of 2023, I have noticed the Jewish ancestors in me more than ever

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