Graphic novelist Julian Voloj was walking through Manhattan’s Chinatown when he stumbled across the cemetery of the United States’ oldest Jewish community, Shearith Israel. This inspired him to write ...

As we celebrate the 21st year of Jewish American Heritage Month, I’m proud to lead this effort to detail all the remarkable contributions that generations of Jewish Americans made to shape our ...

Danish journalist Jens Chr. Abildskov counters antisemitism by cataloging centuries of cultural, scientific and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Dan Tadmor will be the new CEO of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. (Courtesy of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...

The story of Mashhadi Jews, from persecution in Iran to preserving Jewish identity, explored through one family and a new ...

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 ...