In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who ...
The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...
Georgia's history with Jewish residents shows a complicated past. There was condemnation and rejection but also examples of interfaith leaders celebrating civic life together.
As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...
Syria registers its first Jewish organization as the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation gains official approval to protect ...
The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...
In rural America, Jewish burial often meant long journeys to city cemeteries — even as towns kept vigil at home.
Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
During the Jewish golden age in Spain, from about AD 900 to 1300, Jews contributed to the economy, arts, and pursuit of scientific knowledge that thrived during the sometimes uneasy coexistence of ...
Genesis 9:23-25, Bereshit Rabbah 36:7 and quotes from Rabbi Berhard Felsenthal (founder of the Jewish Publication Society and ...