Sunday Features

Israel is good at assassinating its enemies. Does it make a difference?

Israel has killed a lot of Hamas leaders before the assassination this week of Ismail Haniyeh.

Meet the mah jongg mavens of Bryant Park

Every summer Thursday, dozens of people gather in Midtown to clack tiles in a game that Jews popularized in the United States.

Noor ibrahim, Rena Ibrahim and Tulei Abu Jabal (left to right), cousins of one of the victims, at a memorial to those killed in the attack. (Deborah Danan)

In Majdal Shams, families mourn children killed in rocket attack — and feel the embrace of their Jewish neighbors

Though Golan Druze have a complicated relationship with Israel, Israelis have collectively grieved the dead youths and spoken of the strike as an Israeli national tragedy.

Meet J.D. Vance’s Jewish chief of staff, Jacob Reses

Israeli military vows to stop flow of donations to soldiers, even from their parents

Sarah Levy’s great-grandfather faced a Yom Kippur rugby dilemma. She’s playing in the Paris Olympics.

This Jewish gynecologist saved hundreds of pregnant women’s lives in Auschwitz

How Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ became an unlikely lightning rod in literary fights over the Israel-Hamas war

These Jewish Boy Scouts saved a man’s life on the flight home from a 100-mile mountain trek

Jewish leaders in Europe want to stay there despite pessimism about antisemitism, survey finds

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