Ideas

The Sit-Down Ideas

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

Eric Alterman’s “We Are Not One” is history of U.S.-Israel relations told through the intense public arguments they have engendered.

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ChatGPT can write verse, but it is no more alive than the Golem of Prague

Like a golem, artificial intelligence doesn’t have a human heart, writes the poet Rodger Kamenetz.

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On one foot: 5 essential things to know about Abraham Joshua Heschel on his 50th yahrzeit

Rabbi Shai Held offers an introduction to a giant of 20th-century American Jewish thought and activism.

Learning Hebrew brought me closer to Judaism — and alienated me from Israel

A law professor worries Israel could become the next Hungary

Israeli democracy may not survive a ‘reform’ of its Supreme Court

Rabbi Rosen Pope Benedict March 2006 copy

The Pope Benedict I knew: A keeper of his faith with a deep respect for Judaism

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Picking a new rabbi? A new novel about a church shows how

Book bans, Ukraine and the end of Roe: The year 2022 in Jewish ideas

Why we’ll fight Israel’s new extremist political agenda with the determination of the Maccabees

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