Books

A man reading a book on the beach is interrupted by a sudden storm.

Ideas

Why ‘beach reading’ is a joke on Jews like me

The headlines won’t let me escape with an escapist book.

The Sit-Down Ideas

Ana Levy-Lyons, a former Unitarian Universalist minister and future rabbi, wants to cure what ails the secular left

Her new book argues that “nones” have liberalized themselves out of meaning and connection.

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.

Ideas

Who killed Jesus? It wasn’t the Jews, writes a scholar of Roman law.

Ideas

Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews

The Sit-Down

How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

Ideas

Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.

Ideas

Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power

Ideas

The Lower East Side anti-Jewish riot that changed the way Jews do politics

Ideas

Three new books capture an era when Jews were (literally) on the same page

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