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.

Ideas

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

A Jewish academic felt protective of Meir’s legacy. A former negotiator for the Palestinians was infuriated.

Ideas

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

It’s not great for the Jews that Mateo is the moral center of the film, writes the managing editor of London’s Jewish Chronicle.

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

Where conflict is news, stories of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation go missing

Performing Hasidic music, these women are transcending gender and the Orthodox-liberal divide

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