The Sit-Down Ideas Meet two rabbis who are trying to fight ‘toxic polarization’ — one Jewish text at a time On the eve of Election Day, Rachel Schmelkin and Michael Holzman ask: Can this democracy be saved?
The Sit-Down Ideas How a 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron foreshadowed Oct. 7 In “Ghosts of a Holy War,” Yardena Schwartz explores an anti-Jewish pogrom in British Mandate Palestine and how it echoed across the next century.
The Sit-Down Ideas Why writer Etgar Keret wants to get back to Israel as soon as he can The author of prize-winning short fiction says the daily reality of a country at war has kept his darkest thoughts at bay.
The Sit-Down The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate
The Sit-Down Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state
The Sit-Down Pulitzer Prize finalist tells story of the little-known Jewish lawyer who tried to keep Emma Goldman out of jail