With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the preeminent centers for the research and preservation of the history ...
Artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks about a new exhibit of work that includes 5,000 years of Jewish history etched into ...
The report on teaching aids followed a speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in which he called Budapest the safest European capital for Jews.The post Hungarian textbooks deemed fair, in-depth ...
Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...
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 ...
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 ...
Judaism has always evolved. In a world of instant access and fading institutions, rabbinic leadership must evolve with it.
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 ...
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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 ...
The story of Black–Ashkenazi Jewish relations is not a simple tale of alliance or betrayal—it is a window into how race, ...
Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...