John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...

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 ...

As she scanned her audience, Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich was pleased to see diversity staring back at her. “We are bonded by ...

As Holocaust Remembrance Day nears, two filmmakers warn that silencing uncomfortable truths about the past fuels modern ...

For Jews, the events of October 7—the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust—were horrifying and traumatizing. But what has happened in the three months since is also deeply ...

(JTA) — Early in the new drama “Origin,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin from Berlin to share that, as part of her research ...

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 ...

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 ...