Ideas

The Sit-Down Ideas

A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

Jewish literature and American studies scholar Jeremy Dauber centers Jewish identity in a new biography of the director and actor.

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My mom’s hamantaschen recipe carries the memories that she is losing

A Jewish educator reflects on the Purim cookie she used to make with her mother, who has been diagnosed with aphasia.

Ideas

The settlers’ attack on Huwara is not the Orthodox Judaism I grew up on

Religious Zionism does not mean contempt for human life and the “other,” writes a member of Israel’s Faithful Left movement.

The JTA conversation: Pogrom? Terrorism? What do we call what happened in Huwara?

On one foot: Digital innovator and ‘Tech Shabbat’ pioneer Tiffany Shlain’s lessons from 3 years living online

Beyond the ‘Day of Hate’: The best strategy to keep American Jews safe over the long term

Richard Belzer Jewish comedian

Richard Belzer was a Jewish comedian. Why didn’t his obituaries say so?

Hebrew Israelites and Jews of color are not the same, and it’s not racist for us to say so

Among Ukraine’s Jews, a year of war has transformed the ordinary into the sacred

How Jewish comedy found religion, from Philip Roth to ‘Broad City’

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