The first Jews arrived in what would become the United States as early as the 1650s, when a small group of Sephardi refugees ...

Brothers Barnard and Michael Gratz are featured prominently in the Jewish exhibit at the Museum of the American Revolution. (Courtesy of the Museum of the American Revolution) About ...

(JTA) After 10 years on display at Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, a document penned by James Madison linking Jewish financier Haym Salomon to the American ...

This week, thousands of Jews, from Modern Orthodox communities to Litvish yeshivos, will open their weekly Mishpacha Magazine ...

Rabbi Fishel Jacobs of Kfar Chabad in Israel believes the Jewish world is experiencing a “family purity revolution.” He should know. Since 1998, Rabbi Jacobs has published five books on the laws of ...

(JTA) Walking on the scorched and scarred sidewalks of Kiev’s main square five years ago, Eduard Dolinsky felt hopeful and proud. A member of Kiev’s large Jewish population and a longtime activist for ...

I teach modern Jewish history. Usually, when I mention Ukraine in class, my students’ eyes glaze over. But lately that hasn’t been the case. The eyes of the world have been turned to Kiev, the city ...

An uprising took the country out of Russia’s influence, but ushered in a wave of Nazi glorification and, some say, anti-Semitism. KIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — Walking on the scorched and scarred sidewalks of ...