Ideas The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great. Interfaith families crave a positive and fully inclusive attitude, not just permission, writes the founder of 18Doors.
Ideas In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing YIVO sought a home in New York for a museum dedicated to the vanished “homes” of Eastern Europe.
Ideas Israelis are getting religion, in spite of a coercive Chief Rabbinate A trend that began on Oct. 7 is a reminder that religion does better in the free marketplace of ideas, writes the head of a Modern Orthodox community in Israel.
Pulitzer Prize finalist tells story of the little-known Jewish lawyer who tried to keep Emma Goldman out of jail