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 ...
Dotted across Ohio are communities that were once host to thriving Jewish populations. Though some of the members of those communities have moved on, they have left traces of their culture and history ...
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 ...
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This graphic novel illustrates the story of America’s first Jewish congregation — pirates and all
Graphic novelist Julian Voloj was walking through Manhattan’s Chinatown when he stumbled across the cemetery of the United States’ oldest Jewish community, Shearith Israel. This inspired him to write ...
In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, American Jewry has been thrust into an eighth front of the Israel–Hamas war: the fight for truth amid a deluge of lies. Across social media, university quads ...
In December 2023, Pamela Nadell, a professor of Jewish history at American University, testified alongside the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT at a congressional hearing ...
As we celebrate the 21st year of Jewish American Heritage Month, I’m proud to lead this effort to detail all the remarkable contributions that generations of Jewish Americans made to shape our ...
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May Day and the Reclamation of the Jewish Radical Tradition
This year’s demonstrations will be vast and infused with the politics of Jewish Labor Bund. In most of the world, May 1, May ...
The story of Mashhadi Jews, from persecution in Iran to preserving Jewish identity, explored through one family and a new ...
Dan Tadmor will be the new CEO of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. (Courtesy of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...
This past weekend’s massacre in Bondi Beach in Australia and the Oct. 2 attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England — on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year — were a chilling reminder ...
Arriving at a moment of protest fatigue and political polarization, three books for would-be dissidents draw on a long ...
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