Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein are the “unruly” subjects of David Denby’s “Eminent Jews.” In his new book “Eminent Jews,” Denby celebrates four leading Jewish cultural ...

David Denby’s Eminent Jews slyly takes its title from Lytton Strachey’s 1918 book Eminent Victorians, a group biography that took a mostly irreverent look at four prominent personalities of the ...

The latter half of the 20th century might be seen as a golden age for American Jews. Although the trauma of the Holocaust was present in people’s minds, the American Jewish community felt relatively ...

In my own life, I have embraced peoplehood. Nearly half of us Jews live in Israel — a proportion that is likely to increase.

What is one to make of a country whose president blesses not only Israel but the IDF after striking at Israel’s most dangerous enemy, but days later nominates as the Democratic candidate for mayor of ...