Two hundred people showed up for his memorial in New York. Hundreds more buried him on the Mount of Olives. Shopkeepers — ...
City University of New York public system's material includes Yiddish jokes, posters for champion boxers, and student ...
Graphic novelist Julian Voloj was walking through Manhattan’s Chinatown when he stumbled across the cemetery of the United States’ oldest Jewish community, Shearith Israel. This inspired him to write ...
AJC San Diego has developed a set of mini-lessons about notable Jewish San Diegans throughout the city’s history. Click here ...
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 ...
The story of Mashhadi Jews, from persecution in Iran to preserving Jewish identity, explored through one family and a new ...
In just three years, the United States will observe the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. In my view, the American Revolution not only led to the creation of the United States but was also ...
The High Holy Days, celebrated by the Jewish faithful over a 10 days, conclude with Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on Sunday. This day of reflection serves as a reminder that Jews have been a ...
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 ...