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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette

Traces of local Jewish history found by native of Lancaster

NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect proper terminology, changing the incorrectly used literary loans to Liberty Loans. LANCASTER −A history of Jewish tradition in Lancaster has been ...
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 ...
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 ...