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. Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a “misreading” that has often come back to haunt Jews come Easter time.
The Sit-Down How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print