Jewish and Muslim People Face a Wave of Hate. Can Schools Turn the Tide?

New York City is rolling out lessons on Jewish and Muslim American history. Too often, some leaders say, what students know ...
The Forward on MSN

In three centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish

Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries By Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pages, $35 Nicholas Lemann’s Jewish ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The real Jewish history in Mel Brooks’ and Hulu’s ‘History of the World, Part II’

Spoilers for “History of the World: Part II” follow. (JTA) – Finally fulfilling the promise Mel Brooks made in 1981, the long-belated “History Of The World, Part II” brings us … “Hitler on Ice.” For a ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

‘Bad Jews’ describes a history of American Jewish infighting

(JTA) — The history of Jewish identity and politics in America has been told as a triumph of spiritual renewal (“A Certain People,” Charles Silberman, 1986), as an overdue flexing of political muscle ...
San Diego Jewish World

The global resurgence of the ‘Jewish Question’

The Jewish question remained unresolved for a long time. After World War II, it seemed that an answer to the Jewish question ...
The Big IssueOpinion

Jews and Muslims' connected history goes beyond Gaza. It's a story that needs to be told right now

Relations between Jews and Muslims span 1,400 years and the spectrum of human interaction, from love and friendship to hate ...
Jewish Journal

The Return to Jewish History

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 ...
Washington Examiner

The modern American history of Orthodox Judaism’s thriving

In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...
MyNorthwest.com

‘Boom, there was a community’: Washington’s Jewish future guided by history

A landmark book documenting Jewish history in Washington state has just been updated and reissued in a revised edition by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. The first edition of “Family ...
Los Angeles Times

Jewish communities thrived in early L.A. — and helped the city thrive

There’s an easy formula for sizing up Los Angeles as the destination of choice for the peoples of the Earth: “There are more (nationality/ethnic group) living in Los Angeles than anywhere else on the ...
Jewish Journal

Traversing Jewish History … in Reverse

Public domain A few weeks ago, after catching a 5:37 a.m. Megillah reading courtesy of a kind-hearted and early-rising friend ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

The History of Jewish Inclusion, Resilience at Cornell

As Cornell’s Jewish community grapples with antisemitic threats and a tense campus culture following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Sun explored the larger history of Jewish student ...