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 ...

One of the not-so-secret crisis in the Jewish community today is the challenge people have finding a life partner and starting a Jewish family. We are seeing a real and painful trend of wonderful ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

Before the Lower East Side, Jewish colonists were helping invent the United States – testing whether a distinct minority could be fully at home in a revolutionary republic. When American Jews tell our ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago I had stopped by to visit an old friend at his medical practice in Santa Monica when he asked me if I would help give a ride to one of his elderly Iranian Jewish patients. The man in ...

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 ...