Mayer’s prominence in public life reflects an often-overlooked reality of 19th-century American Jewish history: significant Jewish leaders and contributions could be found in many small towns ...

Many well-intentioned people still struggle to understand what exactly constitutes antisemitism and when anti-Israel rhetoric ...

With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people Arthur ...

Inside Syria's ancient capital, a lone Jewish guardian watches over abandoned properties while Islamist rulers patrol the ...

They were immigrants to the New World, German Jews who had come to the outermost ... may judge harshly the collision of cultures in 19th-century Sitka. The consequences of that time echo down ...

Interestingly, we learned from the Filipinos at the Shabbat table that about 90% of Filipino men are circumcised by a mohel, like us, but at ages 8-11. Perhaps there is some historical connection to ...

In coming months, I will research my family's narrative of migration (European Jews to New York in the late 19th century), explore parallels with historical migration patterns of the period, and write ...