Archives for September 2025

The world’s oldest calendar system keeps us tied to our ancient homeland.

Celebrated writers, thinkers and theologians weigh in on forgiveness and the capacity for change in this Rosh Hashanah-themed crossword.

In her part-memoir, part-medical investigation, geneticist Susan Weiss Liebman describes the discovery that gave her the key to unlocking her family's tragic history.

Maya Arad’s latest novel follows Leah, an Israeli living in America, over five decades as she writes annual Rosh Hashanah letters to friends in Israel.

How did Hamas take the most powerful military in the Middle East by surprise? In their book, journalists Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot provide an authoritative narrative of…

Pamela S. Nadell has catalogued a disturbing side of American history that adds nuance to the belief that the American experience has been uniquely welcoming for Jews.

Popular Israeli songs captured the nation’s mood after October 7, but lesser-known family-initiated odes have emerged to mourn the lost.

Four documentaries highlight the massacre’s intensity and the stories of victims and their families and friends still struggling to make sense of what happened.