He Went to a Different Manhattan Synagogue Every Week. Here’s What It Taught Him.
Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
Reporting on the Jewish community is a lot like ornithology, except instead of birds the goal is to describe the dress,...
Dolly Parton’s Legacy Includes the Jewish Children’s Book Program She Inspired
Penny Schwartz
Dolly Parton, the singer who died Tuesday at age 80 after a brief bout with cancer, was mourned around the world as a...
An Influential Book of a Nazi Leader’s Confessions Is Now Available in English
Shira Li Bartov | JTA
Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50,000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in...
Feeling Excluded in the Literary World, Jews Are Launching Their Own Publishing Houses
Philissa Cramer | JTA
An unpublished novel has paved the way for the birth of a new Jewish fiction imprint, in the leading edge of...
A ‘Piyut’ for Former Gaza Hostage Agam Berger
Sasha Silber | JNS
Agam Berger was handed a small whiteboard and a marker on the afternoon of Jan. 30, 2025, in the back of...
Digital Book Revisits Controversial Qumran Discovery Linked to Temple Incense
Steve Linde | JNS
More than three decades after an extraordinary archaeological discovery near Qumran sparked worldwide attention and fierce debate, a new research project...
Nathan Straus Made His Fortune at Macy’s — and Spent It Fighting Disease in...
Charles Munitz | JTA
What do the ultra-wealthy owe the rest of us? It may be the defining argument of our second Gilded Age.
While Elon...
Bestselling Israeli Author Releases Latest Novel Translated to English
Jessica Russak-Hoffman | JNS
Last year, the Israeli military launched operation “Rising Lion.” This year, it fought operation “Roaring Lion.”
June 16, a different lion —...
Finalists Announced for Lucrative Jewish Literary Award
Lisa Keys | JTA
Amir Tibon’s memoir about his family’s ordeal during the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and Laura Hobson Faure’s history of Jewish...
‘The Wanderers’ Tells the Story of Poland’s Holocaust Survivors Who Fled to the Soviet...
By Shira Li Bartov
Like many Holocaust survivors, Daniela Gerson’s grandparents lived by the vow to “never forget, never forgive” the annihilation of their Polish...