Tzvi Novick begins his new book with the three maxims for interreligious dialogue that were famously taught by Krister Stendahl, bishop of the Church of Sweden in the 1980s. Authentic dialogue, he ...

Jews familiar with Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) probably know him first as a hero, only then as a German-Jewish philosopher. His life and death are the stuff of legend. Born to an assimilated Jewish ...

The academic field of Jewish Studies has always stretched between differing audiences and purposes. In its earliest phases, from the Wissenshaft des Judentums [Science of Judaism] as it was practiced ...

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. A pot, a pan, a broom, a hat. A bench, a tree. So, what’s a stove? Or a house? A stick of wood. A piece of cloth. — From “Anatevka,” lyrics by Sheldon ...

In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, American Jewry has been thrust into an eighth front of the Israel–Hamas war: the fight for truth amid a deluge of lies. Across social media, university quads ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...

For many people, Jewish American history is synonymous with northern cities like New York and Chicago. But the South played ...

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Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country revisits the past of the Jewish Labor Bund and considers what it might mean for our future. Looking back on a debate with Edward Said in 1978, ...