Everything published, in reverse chronological order.
Rights More gates, more grants, more drills: what a High Holiday seat costs in 5787
The federal security-grant pool has grown thirtyfold in two decades and still turns away more than half its applicants. Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, American congregations are budgeting for security like it's permanent — because it is.
Tamar Goldfarb · Sep 1, 2026
News Six years after Squirrel Hill, what the community actually changed
A grant-funded mental-health network, a security-coordination model now copied in fourteen cities, and a question about what comes next.
Aaron Friedman · May 12, 2026
Culture The quiet Yiddish revival happening in five American universities
Enrollment in undergraduate Yiddish has tripled in a decade. The students aren't who you'd guess and they aren't studying what you'd think.
Devorah Steiner · May 1, 2026
Rights Rights: how hostage families coordinated a four-capital push for new disclosures
A working group of relatives spent eight weeks building a single ask. It landed last week. The mechanics are quietly important.
Tamar Goldfarb · Apr 29, 2026
Diaspora Diaspora: the Persian-Jewish archive that's quietly being assembled in Los Angeles
Ninety hours of oral history. Six thousand photographs. A 2,500-year community telling itself for the first time on its own terms.
Yael Hakimian · Apr 17, 2026
History History: how Pittsburgh's Jewish community arrived
Three waves, 130 years, one neighborhood. A short history drawn from the Rauh Jewish Archives — and what it tells us about what's still here.
Eli Rosenfeld · Apr 2, 2026