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 ...
Through a conversation about education, Jewish identity, and the place of Jews in American history, we consider why richer ...
The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean ...
Menachem Begin during his “Rabbi Sassover” period with wife Aliza and son Benyamin-Zeev in Tel Aviv. Courtesy Jabotinsky Institute. Public domain A few weeks ago, after catching a 5:37 a.m. Megillah ...
Loving your neighbor includes understanding your neighbor. The attack on Jews in Boulder, Colorado, two weeks ago; combined with the attack two weeks before in Washington, DC; combined with the arson ...
The Jewish religion is the outgrowth of the experience of the Jewish people through events to which they ascribe transcendent meaning. Every people has a history, but many people pay no attention to ...
I’ve perhaps arrived early to an older man’s fixation: Civil War. Not the American one. (At least not the one that took place ...
Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan, inventing Judaism and changing the world forever. Around 2,500 years ago ...
From events at historic synagogues and museums to volunteer opportunities and civic engagement, American Jews across the country are celebrating the semiquincentennial. This July 4, American Jews will ...
As Cornell’s Jewish community grapples with antisemitic threats and a tense campus culture following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Sun explored the larger history of Jewish student ...