Forty miles north of New York City lie the Hasidic enclaves of New Square, Kaser and Monsey. All in all, some 60,000 Hasidim live in these towns of Rockland County; some 20,000 are children. On ...

‘This book frankly leapt out of me,” writes John McWhorter, “during the summer of 2020.” The country was convulsed not just with Covid-19, but with protests in response to the killing of ...

The time is Oct. 6, 2023, and someone has come forward with a book in which two highly trained and distinguished sociologists, one an Orthodox Jew and the other an observant Muslim, explore how ...

For nearly 50 years, Steel wrote books and essays—many of them for The New Republic—that punctured the pious pretensions of presidents, senators, secretaries of state, and sometimes ...

Even in our day it seems to us that the practice of indulgences too often favors in the faithful a sort of pious bookkeeping in which one forgets what is essential, namely, the sacred and personal ...

If, during the 12th century, rabbis applauded women as "pious and pure" because of their major role in ... The heart of Grossman’s book concerns the improvement of Jewish women’s lot and the efforts ...