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 ...
The Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 N. Prospect Ave., shares the history and culture of Jewish people in Wisconsin and their connection to Jewish people in America and the world. According to the museum ...
Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
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 ...
Shepsl Rotholc was a famous champion Jewish boxer in Poland in the 1930s. When the Nazis rose to power in neighboring Germany, he beat their fighters in bout after bout. "Rotholc Triumphs over the ...
A treasure trove of documents and photos displayed in an online USF exhibit tells the histories of subcommunities of Jewish San Francisco. (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — The ...
The broad wooden trunk with floral engravings looks impossibly heavy. But in the early 1900s, Rachmiel “Robert” Shapiro carried it with him as he sneaked out of Russia and made his way to the United ...
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 ...
The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...
Since the time the United States was but a coalition of villages and settlements, America’s Jewish citizens have played an indispensable role in our national story. They arrived as farmers, soldiers, ...
Some of cinema’s most visionary filmmakers, writers, and actors have been Jewish-Americans. The same can be said about professional baseball, comedy, politics, and many in the “Greatest Generation,” ...
Some progressive Jews are embracing “diasporism” — reimagining their faith as one that blesses their lives in America and elsewhere. By Marc Tracy Last month, on the first night of Hanukkah, more than ...
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