The story of Mashhadi Jews, from persecution in Iran to preserving Jewish identity, explored through one family and a new ...

Jewish life in the early Islamic world was apparently somewhat positive, especially as compared to Christendom. Jews were living in the Arab world since the Romans conquered Israel in 63 BCE when many ...

Danish journalist Jens Chr. Abildskov counters antisemitism by cataloging centuries of cultural, scientific and ...

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 ...

The High Holy Days, celebrated by the Jewish faithful over a 10 days, conclude with Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on Sunday. This day of reflection serves as a reminder that Jews have been a ...

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 ...

The political and cultural tumults of today call to mind the words of the great Jewish intellectual Milton Himmelfarb in 1967. In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War—when the Jewish people ...

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...

Exploring Jew Town in Kochi, India, and uncovering the reality behind its Jewish history. While the area once had a thriving Jewish community and a historic synagogue dating back to the 1500s, today ...