Ideas

Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in.

The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state.

Ideas

A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author’s broken Cuban-Jewish family

In “Dwell Time,” art conservator Rosa Lowinger tells what her family found and lost when they settled in Miami.

Ideas

Fighting society’s disintegration is a group effort. Just ask Moses.

We don’t have many more tools than Moses had to shape collective behavior, writes a senior vice president at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

One Palestinian, one Jew, and two very different impressions of ‘Golda’

‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ is about Jews. So why is the nicest character Christian?

Everything my college student needs to know he learned at synagogue

‘Golda’ focuses on a few grim weeks in the life of Israel’s first female prime minister. A biographer wants you to see the bigger picture.

An Israeli envoy looks back on 5 tumultuous and gratifying years in New York

A rabbi answers her congregants’ question: Why do they hate us?

How the Bible anticipated Israel’s fight over the judiciary

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