Jewish American Heritage Month is an opportunity to fight the surge of hate

Jewish American Heritage Month should be a celebration of the contributions Jews have made to American life. From medicine, ...

'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune ...
Jewish Journal

The Return to Jewish History

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 Forward

This graphic history of Jerusalem is a big hit. But its Jews have hooked noses

Jerusalem is arguably the most contentious city in the world, so any work discussing it, let alone one that explores its four millennia of history, is bound to be controversial. But the 256-page ...
The Nation

What the Jewish History of Exile Means Now

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 ...

The Challenge for American Jews

For Jews in the United States, progressive alliances are weakening, political identities are shifting, and emotional ties to ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A history of the radical Jewish feminists and the one subject they never talked about

BROOKLINE, Mass. (JTA) — Heather Booth, Amy Kesselman, Vivian Rothstein and Naomi Weisstein. The names of these bold and influential radical feminists may have faded in recent years, but they remain ...
Irish Central

Irish and Jewish questions – the chosen people’s history in Ireland

An extract from “Irish Questions and Jewish Questions” a study of the Jews of Ireland and of their social history in Ireland. Editor's note: May marks the Jewish American Heritage Month in the United ...