The Sit-Down Ideas Rabbi David Wolpe, stepping down from a top pulpit, wants you to stop arguing and start listening One of the country’s best-known Conservative rabbis has become an advocate for civil discourse in polarized times.
The Sit-Down Ideas A new book made me appreciate Jewish Sunday schools — and the volunteer women who have powered them Laura Yares looks back at the 19th-century educators, mostly women, who developed a new model for teaching American kids about Judaism.
The Sit-Down Ideas Letty Cottin Pogrebin wants Jews to own up to the corrosive power of shame In “Shanda,” a leading feminist writes about her immigrant Jewish family and the secrets they carried through their lives.
The Sit-Down Why a liberal Zionist rabbi isn’t taking to the streets over Israel’s judicial reform plan
The Sit-Down ‘The Jewish Catalog’ turbocharged DIY Judaism. 50 years later, one of its editors is back with a ‘bookend.’