For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal ...

On Sept. 11, 2014, at the annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George told the audience: “Before I went to the Conclave of the College of Cardinals this past ...

I was invited to the conference to speak about digital antisemitism, and indeed, however clichéd the metaphor may sound, it is true that Jews have always been the canary in the coalmine ...

Michael Krampner, a retired American trial lawyer, who also earned a Ph.D. In Jewish history, lives in Jerusalem where he is improving his Hebrew, learning traditional Jewish texts, reading widely ...

History caught up with American Jews. Many of us grew up believing we had escaped the legacy of forebears victimized, banished and exterminated. In the United States, in the decades after the ...

Last week, a coalition of 10 large Jewish groups released an open letter decrying the Trump administration’s approach to antisemitism. Hours later, Eric Fingerhut, the CEO of the Jewish ...

Eighty years ago, the systematic murder of Jews was finally over, but antisemitism remained. Now, as hatred of Jews surges around the world, we must ask the awful question: Is liberation from the ...

Why does the death of the pope touch me, as a Jew? I cannot think of a pope who had the depth of relationships with the Jewish community as this pope had enjoyed. As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

Hitler didn’t treat Jews with love, he killed six million of them and wanted to kill all of them. It is beyond understanding how anyone can support Donald Trump after he has said this despicable ...

Antisemitism in Canada has exploded in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, reaching record numbers last year and becoming a central issue for the country’s Jewish community ahead ...

Thirty years ago, Temple Beth Shalom on Spokane’s South Hill started the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust to honor the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust, those who survived ...