The Passover Seder and its Haggadah preserve an ancient Jewish conversation about freedom, peoplehood, and attachment to the ...
As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew. Mardi Gras held more importance than ...
New York City is rolling out lessons on Jewish and Muslim American history. Too often, some leaders say, what students know ...
As Cornell’s Jewish community grapples with antisemitic threats and a tense campus culture following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Sun explored the larger history of Jewish student ...
As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...
A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.
A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...
Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries By Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pages, $35 Nicholas Lemann’s Jewish ...