Rabbi Becky Eisenstadt started b'nai mitzvah tutoring in her hometown in Bethesda, Maryland. Twenty years later as more Jews skip the synagogue, she's made it into a mini-empire
Author Rich Cohen's latest book, 'The Adventures of Herbie Cohen' is part biography and part family memoir, centering on his father, an international deal-making guru
Move seen as possible retaliation for movement’s decades-long effort to recover artifacts taken by the Soviets; rabbis among numerous US Jews targeted by Russia
A conversation with historian Eric Alterman, whose new book explores critical tension at the heart of US Jewish discourse on Israel and what is missed by debate without listening
A onetime Democrat, Decter later rejected 'heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual nihilism'; she was known as the 'requisite bad guy on discussion panels'
Tulane University professor Ilana Horwitz's research points to religious culture as reason for why Jewish girls surpass educational attainment of non-Jewish girls - and Jewish boys
While American Jews are mostly in favor of reproductive rights, with some spearheading the fight, many in religious and conservative communities fall on pro-life side of issue
Democratic incumbents Haley Stevens and Andy Levin must battle it out in a newly redrawn 11th District holding the majority of Detroit's 70,000 Jews, and Israel is a hot topic
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