The Jewish question’ refers to the debate that arose in European society between the 18th and 20th centuries about the place, ...
Jews have played pivotal roles throughout key moments in American history. Throughout 2026, monthly online conversations with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hosted on MSN
The secret Jewish history of Alcatraz
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. A reported White House plan ...
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 first enslaved Black people in English-speaking America arrived in 1619 in Virginia. The first Jewish settler arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. Thereafter, over the next 400 years, two radically ...
The Rothschilds were one of a number of wealthy German Jewish families in Frankfurt and they simply went out into the banking capitals of Europe at the right time. They made an enormous amount of ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results