Its cantor, Gershom Seixas, a member of a prominent and extensive Sephardic family ... would extend religious liberties to Jews. Washington sent a famous response, promising to give “to bigotry ...

Devin Naar is the chair of the Sephardic studies program at the University of Washington. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University) — Exactly a century ...

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Their inclusion — in the “Leaders” and “Titans” sections of the annual list — points to the ongoing significance of Hamas’ ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Some of the book’s strongest research covers the years spanning Reconstruction through Jim Crow, when, Rabin writes, “most ...

Bad Jews," Sarasota Jewish Theatre's latest production, creates edgy comedy in the minefield of authentic Jewish identity.

PHILADELPHIA — Rabbi Zev Eleff looked, at first glance, like the kind of man who might have written a book about Jewish ...

For the German town of Torgau, the 1945 meeting of American and Russian troops at the Elbe River at the end of World War II ...

They contend, however, that the Bible itself does just that. They say, “just look at all of the Israelites who married non-Jewish women,” in the literal text itself. So yes, let us examine ...

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...