Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is a four-part series from acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., exploring the rich, complex relationship between Black Americans and Jewish ...
Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 years of Jewish life in the United States, from Colonial times to the present.
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 ...
Birthday of Henrietta Szold, known as the “Mother of the Yishuv,” founder of the Hadassah women’s organization and Youth Aliyah, which saved thousands of Jewish children in Europe and brought them to ...
An election poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev in 1917. The heading reads, "Where we live, there is our country!" We can see the emptiness and barrenness of aligning ourselves with ...
If you asked a Jew in 19th-century Poland, Iraq, or even New York about tikkun olam, they might have shrugged their shoulders and said they didn't know much about it. "It was a pretty obscure term," ...