Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, ...

That instinct is often misunderstood as emotional or impulsive. It is neither. It reflects a way of understanding Jewish life shaped by a long memory of responsibility, one that for some has receded ...

PBS series examines the complex history of Black and Jewish alliances, their divisions, and need for unity against white nationalism.

A professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands says helping students after Oct. 7 has given her new insight into her own Jewish identity.

Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?

A new exhibition at Yad Vashem highlights the extraordinary efforts made, often at risk of death, to preserve and mark the ...

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 new effort in Congress could lead to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia becoming part of the Smithsonian — the institution behind many of the museums that line ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The stories and artifacts of Omaha’s Jewish community now have a place to call home. After three years of work, the Milton Mendel and Marsha Kleinberg Jewish Omaha Heritage Center ...

Since the time the United States was but a coalition of villages and settlements, America’s Jewish citizens have played an indispensable role in our national story. They arrived as farmers, soldiers, ...

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

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 ...