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Every year when we read the story of Noah I’m amazed at how the tale hits just a little bit differently. From nursery school, when we sang at the top of our lungs about the “ark-y ark-y,” to years spent wondering how we were supposed to…

When Hamas fires rockets, Europe rushes to hold vigils. When Israel strikes back, the UN trips over itself to condemn Jerusalem. But in Beijing? Silence. China never lined up with the “Free Palestine” mob, and that silence is no…

To Alter the Course of History

Sonnet for Psalm 12

The fortunes of time

enter the stream of history

guided by the Master Being.

His watchful presence

dispersed in eternity’s second

travels like the night that passes into day

To…

Margolick’s newest book published Nov. 11 is a biography of trailblazing comic icon Sid Caesar and includes rare interviews with Mel Brooks and Woody Allen – “a slice of American Jewish cultural history.”

By Allan Ripp

The so-called Luftmensch is not only an outsider, a hesitator, and a seeker, but also someone with a remarkable gift for perfect timing. One of them is my grandmother, Shoshana. She has taken her leave into forgetfulness—punctually and…

In 1994, Rabbi Mordechai Willig helped draft and circulate a monumental document in the Orthodox community to address the agunah problem, best known as the Beit Din of America’s halachic prenuptial agreement (BDA prenup). Rabbi Michael…

In an exclusive interview I conducted with Chaimae Bouazzaoui, the first Moroccan woman diplomat to serve in Israel, she offered in-depth insights into the state of Morocco-Israel relations in the post-Gaza war period, which, while not marked…

So, this is where we are: a Jewish lawyer wears a two-centimeter pendant around his neck in central London and spends ten hours in police custody. The crime? Existing visibly as a Jew near people who find Jewish existence offensive.

The facts…

I like Shira.

I especially like her more than Avi, her older brother in the hit animated Netflix show “Long Story Short” that hilariously and heartwarmingly time travels through the ups and downs of an American Jewish family over the…

In recent years, America’s political landscape has been defined not only by partisanship but by a deeper realignment—one that pits the institutions of liberal democracy against populist movements rising from both ends of the spectrum. For…