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On the small island of St. Eustatius, the Jewish community turned the tide of the American Revolution
Even if you’re someone with the most prolific knowledge of Jewish American history, you may not have heard of the small ...
A Lafayette High School class is bringing history to life by collecting, cataloging and curating a museum exhibit filled with historic items, books, documents and more donated by St.
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 ...
No serious Jew acquainted with history can indulge the illusion that Torah study alone guards Jewish life. Did prayer stop Crusaders at the gates of Mainz? Did holiness prevent Cossack massacres? Did ...
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?
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The secret Jewish history of Alcatraz
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. A reported White House plan ...
Most people would accept the claim that Oct. 7 was an inflection point in Jewish history. But fewer realize that it was also an inflection point for university professors of Jewish history, ...
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 ...
Long Island’s first Jewish congregation was established in 1875 in Breslau, modern-day Lindenhurst, where the group purchased a half-acre of land in a cemetery. The Island’s first synagogue was built ...
The political and cultural tumults of today call to mind the words of the great Jewish intellectual Milton Himmelfarb in 1967. In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War—when the Jewish people ...
I made Aliyah from a place of ideological Zionism. In the few years before I moved to Israel, Zionism became the essence of my identity. In Der Judenstaat, Theodor Herzl argued that Jews in the ...
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