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Spinning at the Edges is the perfect title for Elizabeth Poliner’s newest novel, which spins together a large cast of linked characters, all of whom feel, in different ways, like outsiders. The overarching story belongs to Ruth Pearl, an aging Holocaust survivor...

Camp Tel Yehuda in the 1970s (left). Courtesy of Young Judaea.

I’m a first-generation American. In the late 1970s, when I was of Jewish summer camp age, my parents had never heard of the concept. In re...

Inside the Park Slope Food Coop. Andia/Getty Images

“Take a carrot,” instructs the entrance worker as you swipe your membership card at the Park Slope Food Coop. As a loyal member of the Coop for 20 y...

A younger Michael Metzger with Grandma Lee (left); courtesy of the author. Metzger reads the May/June 2026 issue of Hadassah Magazine at a cafe; Sandra Niz

“They should be ashamed of themselves...

The news tells us what we already know: Israel has never been more isolated. Antisemitism around the world, including in the United States, is more prevalent than at any time since Wor...