This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...

Earlier this week, the AVI CHAI Foundation together with the Steinhardt Foundation posed a question to the Jewish community: What ...

Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...

Jew. Woman. American. Those three attributes are as intrinsic to my identity as my own name.  A close fourth would ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, if someone referenced “The Wall” they were likely referring to the Berlin Wall (or the ...

In December, not long after Among Righteous Men was published, I returned to Crown Heights. The evening was unseasonably warm, and ...

The just-released Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals aims to do for kosher food what Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials did for ...

Explaining to grandchildren Jewish environmental action

The modern seder draws on elements of its mystical predecessor.

Impress your friends and family with these little-known facts about the Day of Atonement.