The documentary, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces years of alliance and rupture — but its false binary perpetuates ...

(RNS) — Despite both having a history of persecution, the groups’ alliance has repeatedly been tested.

The new PBS series Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is not the first piece of media to investigate the ...

In December 2023, Pamela Nadell, a professor of Jewish history at American University, testified alongside the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT at a congressional hearing ...

PBS' four-part documentary on the Black and Jewish experience in America, presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines how the two groups intersect with one another and the rest of the world.

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 ...

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 ...

For Jews, the events of October 7—the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust—were horrifying and traumatizing. But what has happened in the three months since is also deeply ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE HISTORY of Jewish-Persian friendship goes back over 2,500 years, and it is unlikely there is any other example of two ...