Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival commemorating the victory of the Maccabees, a ...

In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who ...

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

Georgia's history with Jewish residents shows a complicated past. There was condemnation and rejection but also examples of interfaith leaders celebrating civic life together.

Syria registers its first Jewish organization as the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation gains official approval to protect ...

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 program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

Kason, a Jewish author whose work explores Jewish history and identity, was deep into a book about Golda Meir’s Milwaukee ...

Alice Eve Cohen’s new play, “Oklahoma Samovar,” unpacks a Jewish family’s generations of secrets. Jewish author, actor and playwright Alice Eve Cohen was a newly minted Princeton University graduate ...

In an encore post, Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein explain that the early Jewish emphasis on literacy set Jews up for economic success. But the popularity of the third-ranked post, of the more ...