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 ...
If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...
John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...
Dan Tadmor will be the new CEO of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. (Courtesy of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?
A secular Jew asked me why I was converting to Judaism. Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age? Did I truly ...
As she scanned her audience, Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich was pleased to see diversity staring back at her. “We are bonded by ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEN-GURION AIRPORT security, Terminal 1, during the COVID-19 pandemic (photo credit: FLASH90) The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting ...
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 ...