John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...
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Is tradition in Judaism still relevant?

Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another ...
If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...
Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...
As she scanned her audience, Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich was pleased to see diversity staring back at her. “We are bonded by ...
Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...
Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. For most of my life, I attended ...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?