On a breezy Sunday morning in the Bronx, about 20 people gathered near the 182nd-183rd Street subway station to explore a side of the neighborhood near Fordham University that is easy to miss today … more

On Friday night in Copenhagen, I went to Shabbat dinner. Nobody else there knew that’s what it was. There were no candles, no Kiddush, no challah. Instead, I found myself at Folkehuset … more

In a small museum in northern Azerbaijan sit two objects that tell a surprisingly long story. They are a pair of tefillin so tiny that the black boxes are barely a centimeter wide. During the Soviet … more

It’s tradition! After Neilah services at my synagogue on Yom Kippur, there’s a surge to tables of light fare typically set out by the Sisterhood. Tired and hungry worshippers gather round to gulp … more

The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program exists, whether or not New Yorkers participate and Albany appropriates nothing to fund it. The program would allow eligible families to access … more

The Trump administration hosted a historic gathering of leaders of major Hasidic communities on Thursday, drawing controversy because several of the rabbis are explicitly anti-Zionist or non-Zionist. … more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s visit to Eichler’s Judaica store in Borough Park last week was an “embarrassment” that allowed him to portray himself as an ally of Jews … more

Gloria Steinem, a mother of Second Wave feminism and a shaper of American culture, who connected with her Jewish lineage later in life died last Wednesday in her home on Manhattan’s Upper East … more

A new book addresses the status of wives whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 but whose bodies were not identified, making them agunot. Rabbi Yona Reiss, av … more

When he faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a closed-door meeting with other Jewish New York spiritual leaders in early August, Rick Jacobs told the mayor plainly that his inflammatory rhetoric on Israel … more