With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the preeminent centers for the research and preservation of the history ...
Explore the intricate layers of Jewish history and its connections to the broader narrative of world events and identities.
Artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks about a new exhibit of work that includes 5,000 years of Jewish history etched into ...
A Festschrift — a celebration of the intellectual achievements of a senior scholar in the form of essays by colleagues, ...
Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...
We should value democracy, safeguard it within Israeli society, and participate actively wherever we reside, cherishing the ...
The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...
Though no Jews live there today, the African territory has a history of Jewish merchants and a tribal clan with a crypto-Jew ...
A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...
The story of Black–Ashkenazi Jewish relations is not a simple tale of alliance or betrayal—it is a window into how race, ...
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The case for Jewish optimism in 2026

Despite antisemitism and the threats of renewed conflict between Israel and Hamas, there are many reasons for optimism for ...
Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...