Braun Professor of American Jewish History Emeritus at Brandeis University. He also is the past president of the Association ...

Through a conversation about education, Jewish identity, and the place of Jews in American history, we consider why richer ...

From events at historic synagogues and museums to volunteer opportunities and civic engagement, American Jews across the country are celebrating the semiquincentennial. This July 4, American Jews will ...

If you want to pray the way the first Jews in North America did, the closest you can come may be weekday services at the ...

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 ...

Tours of synagogues and meetings with religious leaders highlight renewed interest in Jewish history and unresolved questions ...

Some are household names: pop-culture icons and Nobel Prize winners, Supreme Court justices and superhero athletes. Others were obscure individuals caught up in events that shaped society: the ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (JTA) — Heather Booth, Amy Kesselman, Vivian Rothstein and Naomi Weisstein. The names of these bold and influential radical feminists may have faded in recent years, but they remain ...

As Cornell’s Jewish community grapples with antisemitic threats and a tense campus culture following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Sun explored the larger history of Jewish student ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, thousands of Eastern European Jews immigrated to the United States and settled on the Lower East Side. Many moved into tenement buildings and took up employment at ...