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In Ruth Ozeki's new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, a 16-year-old girl in Japan starts a diary, writing that it will be a record of her last days before she commits suicide, and gets an unexpected reader when that diary washes up in Canada.

How does an Argentine Jewish artist approach the ultimate Christian narrative? MacArthur "genius" Osvaldo Golijov says it's by creating a "Latin American Jesus." His Passion According to St. Mark was recently staged at Carnegie Hall with a diverse group of singers from New York schools.

In the 1960s, Irish-born Jews living in New York started the Loyal League of Yiddish Sons of Erin. The fraternal organization's biggest event was the annual St. Patrick's Day banquet, complete with green matzo balls.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to University of Maine sociology professor Amy Blackstone about the declining number of births in the U.S.

We hear from four women who acknowledge how difficult life has been to be a mother before and during the pandemic, and what keeps them motivated.

Kaiser Health News reporter Laura Ungar tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about a the gender gap in American vaccinations.

A new study of Indian jumping ants shows they have the ability to shrink and expand their brains — a first for any insect.

Mark Stefaniak plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

TV's Jeopardy! is featuring guest hosts like Katie Couric to Aaron Rodgers. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks The Ringer's Claire McNear, who wrote a book about the show, what's next.

The issue of immigration has been a persistent struggle for the Biden administration.