The Sit-Down Ideas These therapists give a name to the way Jewish distress has been ignored since Oct. 7: ‘Traumatic invalidation’ Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman strike a nerve with a paper about the mental toll of being told your distress and fears don’t count.
The Sit-Down Ideas A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point” touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from Ellis Island to Galveston.
The Sit-Down Ideas How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print “Sons and Daughters” is being called “the last great Yiddish novel.”
The Sit-Down What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests
The Sit-Down Meet two rabbis who are trying to fight ‘toxic polarization’ — one Jewish text at a time
The Sit-Down The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate