Take, for instance, the word tararam, meaning—what else?—“fuss” or “hullabaloo.”

The historian’s new book sets out to conduct a clear-sighted tour of 21st-century anti-Semitism, but her vision turns out to be occluded.

On Martin Luther King Day, the ghost of the great civil-rights leader was summoned to condemn Israel. The problem? While alive, King had plenty of opportunities to do so—and never did.

There were many more illiterate Jews in the Tsarist empire than we tend to think there were.

A leading American rabbi speaks frankly about the future of his own movement and other matters of pressing Jewish concern.

Just after his moment of glory, the prophet Elijah finds himself alone and deserted.

A Mosaic reader was able to solve the mystery of the Yiddish expression tapn a vant, “to grope a wall.”