The women’s self-recorded experiences are utterly disparate, but both offer a potent antidote to any sentimental nostalgia for life in the age of Sholom Aleichem.

And most of them reveal a hidden admiration for the person who’s had the wit and the grit to get away with it.

On reading the Hebrew Bible in a spirit of intellectual honesty without losing your faith.

Our resident scholar joins us to talk about her recent essay on the novelist Saul Bellow and to expand on her sense of him as a full-fledged Jewish intellectual.

The memoirs of this 17th-century Jewish woman have long fascinated historians. For the first time, a complete English edition brings her to life for today’s readers.

A bomb scare during the film about the murderer of Yitzḥak Rabin prompts musings on behavior private and public.

The author of A Time to Build joins us to talk about why institutions matter and what communities of faith can do to contribute to American renewal.