The Sit-Down Ideas Philip Roth’s latest biographer wants Jews to read him again — without the guilt Steven Zipperstein argues for the brilliance and relevance of a writer who “probed nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish life.”
The Sit-Down Ideas Sarah Hurwitz wants Jews to stop apologizing and start learning In a new book, the former White House speechwriter says it’s time for Jews to reclaim their story from the haters.
The Sit-Down Ideas Why a historian thinks Jews are living through a ‘high tide’ of American antisemitism Pamela Nadell writes a history of Jew hatred, from colonial times to the aftermath of Oct. 7.
The Sit-Down Yosef Blau, author of an Orthodox rabbis’ letter calling out Israel, responds to his critics
The Sit-Down Ana Levy-Lyons, a former Unitarian Universalist minister and future rabbi, wants to cure what ails the secular left
The Sit-Down ‘The price to pay for attacking Iran has dramatically dropped’: Yaakov Katz on the war so far
The Sit-Down These therapists give a name to the way Jewish distress has been ignored since Oct. 7: ‘Traumatic invalidation’
The Sit-Down How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print