
In 1928, a “Jewish autonomous region” was set up in the far east to provide a home for Soviet Jewry. But, as a new book describes, it was no solution at all.

Why the Hebrew word for “shaming” (as in “Facebook shaming”) should not be sheyming.

Considering the achievement of the American Jewish legal giant, a new biography also asks what he would make of Citizens United and other contemporary issues.
The push to establish and enforce a national secularist creed is undermining traditional faiths’ right of free exercise.
It’s time to take a close look at an often ignored subject: what ordinary Palestinians think about Israel, Jews, and terrorist attacks on civilians.