Public domain A few weeks ago, after catching a 5:37 a.m. Megillah reading courtesy of a kind-hearted and early-rising friend in New Jersey, I caught the 8:25 a.m. flight from Newark to Heathrow and ...

What does it mean to tell Jewish stories in a moment of political polarization and distortion? On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer is joined by historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela to ...

Historian Andrew Porwancher will discuss his book "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" in a Zoom program hosted by the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires on Thursday, March 26.

Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 years of Jewish life in the United States, from Colonial times to the present.

Today, more than ever, we need that same “renewing generation” – one that examines and tests, but above all, draws near and ...

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 San Diego Jewish American Heritage Month Student Contest offers participants an opportunity to explore this history and its lasting influence by submitting essays in three categories: Jewish ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Longtime E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons found themselves recently talking Jewish heritage ...