Ideas

Ideas

How the Gilded Age (the era, not the TV show) created American Jewry

An age of excess and exclusion is explored in a new anthology and a symposium at Manhattan’s American Jewish Historical Society

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The loneliness of the long-distance Yom Kippur faster

What endurance athletes can teach us about a 25-hour fast.

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Judah Samet was a mensch well before he survived the Tree of Life shooting

Samet, a Holocaust survivor who spoke about his experiences in Pittsburgh and beyond, died Sept. 27 at 84.

(JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)

High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors.

The world’s attention may be flagging, but Ukraine’s Jews still need our help

Can the state tell yeshivas what they can teach? Here’s what the courts may decide.

For the sin we have sinned by making people feel unwelcome at synagogues

Queen Elizabeth mattered. Civil religion explains why.

We investigated New York City’s Hasidic yeshivas in 2015. The real story now is about inaction.

Ken Burns’ Holocaust documentary may be hard on America, but not hard enough

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