Month: 11 Adar II 5784 (March 2024)

Over the last century, the vast majority of American Jewry became progressively, and seemingly inevitably, more secular. With an intermarriage rate of 72%, all signs have pointed to the imminent end of the largest and most important Jewish community outside of Israel – until now. 

When it collides with antisemitism, it’s anything but an accident.

Polly put the kettle on, we’ll all have tea.” This endearing 19th-century nursery rhyme is catchy, but one is left wondering, “Put the kettle on what? What’s in the kettle? Why do you need to put the kettle on to have tea?” E.D. Hirsch Jr. — American literary critic and educational theorist — reminds us that these questions are […]