Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another ...

Starting with the Revolution, writes a historian, Jews publicly rebutted wartime slander and asserted their place in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...

The report on teaching aids followed a speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in which he called Budapest the safest European capital for Jews.The post Hungarian textbooks deemed fair, in-depth ...

I attended a modern Orthodox Jewish Day School from 1st through 8th grade, and then a similar high school. The secular education was quite good, and the Jewish part – at least from the standpoint of ...

Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...