Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This tale became ...
Another distinguishing factor is that just as was the case with other colonists, American Jews were not monolithic in their politics. Although the overwhelming majority of colonial Jews were patriots ...
(JTA) — 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 ...
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For 250 years, American Jews have answered prejudice with defiance
(JTA) — In December 1778, as the American Revolution still raged, a Jewish writer in Charlestown opened a newspaper and saw ...
It may be hard to recall the mood in the United States immediately after October 7. Major Jewish institutions assumed that there would be a resurgence of global Jewish unity. President Joe Biden and ...
Not many Jewish Americans can trace their roots in this country back five generations, but I can. With that comes not just pride in legacy, but also a unique sense of responsibility always to remember ...
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