In 2006, Samuel Menashe won a prize for not winning prizes—and, for a brief downtown moment, his tiny, holy poems threaded through New York’s seemingly reemergent Jewish literary scene. Then it all came to an end.

How Pope Leo XIV is extending his consensus-based approach (which made him Pope) to international relations

Enormous—and it’s attendance that tells us more than denomination or religion

At a recent conference on artificial intelligence, Catholic teaching met the newest technological revolution and the oldest question: what is a human being?

A Catholic consecrated virgin tells our interviewer the what, the why, and the how of a very unusual spiritual choice

After Norman Podhoretz—who died this week at the age of 95—was savaged for his memoir, he recast the book as a dissenting political act and began reorganizing himself around the fight he said it represented

A new ethno-nationalism is taking root in the Haredi world

Skeptical but searching—this is the domain of sacred indie music

An Australian Jew traces a two-century story of communal safety—and the sudden, shattering return of fear after October 7, culminating in terror at a Hanukkah gathering on Bondi Beach

Known for her poem on the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus should be known for her Hanukkah poems, too