With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the preeminent centers for the research and preservation of the history ...

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 ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Jewish New York was once defined by pushcarts and peddlers; immigrants arriving through Ellis Island; densely packed kosher restaurants; lively Yiddish theater and daily ...

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 ...

Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan, inventing Judaism and changing the world forever. Around 2,500 years ago ...

Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...

Jerusalem is arguably the most contentious city in the world, so any work discussing it, let alone one that explores its four millennia of history, is bound to be controversial. But the 256-page ...

A landmark book documenting Jewish history in Washington state has just been updated and reissued in a revised edition by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. The first edition of “Family ...

A new exhibit at the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri, explores the history of Jewish people in the Ozarks. The exhibit, "Creating Community: Jews of Springfield," features ritual ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was asked in May 2022 how Russia could claim that Ukraine was run by Nazis, as Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.

Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...

First there were restrictions: where they could live, where they could go to school, what jobs they could hold. But after Tsar Alexander II was assassinated by anarchists in 1881, life in Russia grew ...