Jews have played pivotal roles throughout key moments in American history. Throughout 2026, monthly online conversations with ...

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

If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...

Stola, a historian of Polish-Jewish relations and professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, called his return to Polin “a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Most people would accept the claim that Oct. 7 was an inflection point in Jewish history. But fewer realize that it was also an inflection point for university professors of Jewish history, ...

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

Layers of Identity," an exhibition of painted portraits by Israeli-born artist Jac Lahav, will open at the Jewish Museum ...