In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938.

Plans for a major visitor center at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem promise education and security, but opponents say ...

(JTA) — Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and ...

Penn State Profesor Eliyana Adler said the Pilecki Institute quashes work by “historians who strive to show the complex and indeed tragic aspects of Poland’s wartime past.” WARSAW (JTA) — Jewish ...

Jewish historian Neil Keller will share stories and bring personal items of Jewish athletes who struggled to stay alive during the Holocaust at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 16, in the Elgin Room at the Main ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

Jewish delis provide a culinary pathway to some of our deepest Jewish traditions, writes the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. (JTA) — Like so many other American Jews from the New York ...

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

Hanukkah, the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish celebration. Here's what to know.

Even as a youngster attending Camp Ramah in the 1960s, Jonathan Sarna ’75, GSAS MA’75, H’25, was nicknamed “Professor” by his fellow campers, who must have sensed his scholarliness. They were right.

Syria registers its first Jewish organization as the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation gains official approval to protect ...