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 ...
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The secret Jewish history of Alcatraz
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. A reported White House plan ...
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, ...
In our previous article, we began exploring the Torah concepts of seeing and hearing. To briefly review: The spiritual concept of seeing is the idea of observing something as it is, i.e., in a ...
Explore the Center for Jewish History—home to the largest Jewish archive in the country. Located just a few steps away from New York City’s Union Square, the Center for Jewish History is home to the ...
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 ...
“Epiphany of Queen Esther” by Los Angeles-based artist Shahin Dardashti (shahinart.com). This time of year, many non-Persian Jewish friends remind me that as an Iranian Jew, “my holiday” is just ...
In February of last year, The New York Times ran a piece titled “A Jewish Teacher Criticized Israel. She Was Fired.” The piece told the story of Jessie Sander, a young woman who was dismissed from a ...
A new exhibit at the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri, explores the history of Jewish people in the Ozarks. The exhibit, "Creating Community: Jews of Springfield," features ritual ...
Maintaining faith through almost two millennia of persecution in exile was a monumental challenge. Yet, with unwavering courage and resilience, our ancestors found strength in Torah and mitzvot and ...
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 ...
A reported White House plan, announced May 4, to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former prison on an island off San Francisco that has been closed for over 60 years, has been dismissed by Izzy Gardon, ...
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