Before becoming linked to the famous architect who was trying to escape it, the German word mies (rotten) made its way from Hebrew, to Yiddish, to a thieves’ argot called Rotwelsch.

At each point—1897, 1917, and 1947—one Jewish leader appeared, and showed greatness.

From academia to philanthropy to journalism, my experience with Jewish leadership has been by turns discouraging and inspiring.

How something as simple as a brief moment of reflection for schoolchildren could influence hearts and minds for the better.

If you did not leave Poland with the Soviets in June 1941, it is most inadvisable to do so now.

Socialism, so recently considered over and done with, is now back. What does it mean for the Jews?

A new book gives reason to reflect on the little-known story of the Jewish teenager who assassinated a German diplomat in 1938, an act that served as the pretext for Kristallnacht.

Not packaged, not square, not oven-baked: that’s what it wasn’t. But what it was and where the name for it comes from is still something of a mystery.

The author of Mosaic’s March 2019 essay stops by the studio to discuss and debate his argument about immigration.