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 ...
San Diego Jewish World

The global resurgence of the ‘Jewish Question’

The Jewish question’ refers to the debate that arose in European society between the 18th and 20th centuries about the place, ...
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 ...

Meet the Jews who played pivotal roles in American history

Jews have played pivotal roles throughout key moments in American history. Throughout 2026, monthly online conversations with Jewish historians will journey across American and Jewish history.
Opinion
San Diego Jewish WorldOpinion

The history of rabbinical Judaism

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.

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 ...
The Forward

Why a historian thinks Jews are living through a ‘high tide’ of American antisemitism

(JTA) — 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 ...
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 ...
Jewish Journal

Why I Wrote a Pocket History of the Jewish People

In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, American Jewry has been thrust into an eighth front of the Israel–Hamas war: the fight for truth amid a deluge of lies. Across social media, university quads ...
The Spectator Australia

The Venice Ghetto was a landmark in the history of Jewish persecution

In the early 16th century, on the orders of the Doge, Jews were herded en masse from the centre of Venice to the Ghetto Nuovo ...

Australia Moves to Memorialize an Atrocity That’s ‘Not History Yet’

The country and its small Jewish community are still trying to process the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in December.
The Christian Century

A Judaism primer for Christians

Tzvi Novick begins his new book with the three maxims for interreligious dialogue that were famously taught by Krister Stendahl, bishop of the Church of Sweden in the 1980s. Authentic dialogue, he ...