Ideas

Our Southern kitchens are where Black and Jewish traditions come together

The authors of a new cookbook explore how culinary cultures blended in places like their native South Carolina.

Ideas

A novel of Sephardic life revives the Jewish family saga

In “Kantika,” Elizabeth Graver writes about her Ladino-speaking relatives in all their complexity.

The Sit-Down Ideas

Why Donniel Hartman sees a brighter Israeli future — in 2026

The president of the Shalom Hartman Institute says a “new social coalition” is forming around opposition to the Israeli government’s judicial reform plans.

We need to talk about Israel. Tisha B’Av’s central text suggests ‘how.’

What Marc Maron’s comedy special taught me about laughter and Tisha B’Av

Why an Orthodox group supports the Supreme Court ruling on not serving same-sex couples

Tisha B’Av invites you to imagine how everything could go wrong

How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer

The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination is protected speech. As the children of Holocaust survivors, we understand where this leads.

At the heart of the film ‘Oppenheimer’ is a clash between real-life Jews

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