Ideas

The Sit-Down Ideas

‘The Jewish Catalog’ turbocharged DIY Judaism. 50 years later, one of its editors is back with a ‘bookend.’

Fifty years after “The Jewish Catalog,” Michael Strassfeld sets out to describe the purpose of ritual and observance.

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An 1859 fight over how to make matzah has lessons about the threat of AI today

When it comes to Passover, the machines won, writes a Jewish scholar focused on the future.

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How a once-cautious Benjamin Netanyahu came to lead the most radical coalition in Israel’s history

The “old Bibi” once sought to unite the country, until hubris and self-preservation took hold, writes a fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

My grandmother was a ‘Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,’ but she couldn’t solve the mystery of antisemitism

How Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ broke taboos about interfaith families

Which side are you on: Jewish American or American Jew?

Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

How the late actor Topol turned Tevye into a Zionist

Standing on Albania’s Jew Street, I learned firsthand the country’s lifesaving culture of hospitality

Israeli forces prevent protesters to enter Huwara

The Purim story starts in fear and ends in vengeance. Can America and Israel break that cycle?

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