“You can be called a ‘Bad Jew’—by the community or even yourself—if you don’t keep kosher, don’t send your children to Hebrew school, or enjoy Christmas music; if your partner isn’t Jewish, or you don’t call your mother enough. But today, amid rising antisemitism, what makes a Good or Bad Jew is a particularly fraught question.

There is no answer, former New Statesman US editor Emily Tamkin argues, as she reflects on the complex, conflicting and evolving story of American Jewishness. In conversation with fellow journalist and author Zoe Strimpel.”