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February 23, 2022
Claudio Lomnitz and the Vertigo of Translation
In his generations-spanning new book, the anthropologist tracks the story of Jewish life in Latin America through the travails of one family.
Ilan Stavans
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January 12, 2022
How the Left Alienates Jews
Jewish voices are too often excluded from precisely the conversations they should be leading.
Alexis Grenell
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April 19, 2021
Was Marx Also a Social Democrat?
In a new book, Shlomo Avineri explores the social democratic impulses and Jewish origins of Karl Marx.
Bruce Robbins
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November 30, 2020
The Last Few Years Have Spelled a Resounding End to the ‘Jewish Vote’
There is no longer just one Jewish community. There are several, and they are increasingly at loggerheads.
Eric Alterman
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September 26, 2019
A New Generation of Jewish Activists Is Transforming Judaism Itself
Atalia Omer’s new book considers how American Jews are making solidarity with Palestinians a central feature of their spiritual practice and identity.
Nathan Goldman
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September 6, 2019
Trump’s Comments on the ‘Disloyalty’ of Jews Have a Sordid History
Neocons believed that a bit of evangelical anti-Semitism in exchange for bedrock support for Israel was a bargain.
Eric Alterman
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June 28, 2019
Stonewall Was the Moment Queerness Glitter-Bombed the World
Fifty years later, we commemorate the courage of our revolutionaries—and recommit to our fabulousness.
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
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June 12, 2019
Vasily Grossman in War and Peace
In both his life and his writing, the novelist and journalist captured the complications and contradictions of the Soviet century.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
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February 13, 2019
The Maddening, Baffling, Exhausting Endurance of Anti-Semitism
In an age of conspiracy theories, what chance do we have against the oldest conspiracy theory of all?
Talia Lavin
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October 29, 2018
The Pittsburgh Shooting Was a Deliberate Attack on My Community
Do not tell us it’s too soon to talk about guns and bigotry.
Moshe Z. Marvit