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 ...

For the Jews of India, Israel was not viewed as a foreign land to colonize but rather as the ancient homeland of the Jewish people. Steeped in history and flavor, Nahoum’s Bakery in Kolkata ...

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 ...

Charleston, South Carolina, it might come as a surprise, was once the center of Jewish life and culture in the United States, hosting the nation’s largest population of Jews — numbering around ...

The Trump administration wants you to know that it’s just looking out for Jews. In recent weeks, the White House has cited anti-Semitism as the motivation for many of its controversial moves ...

American Jews have watched with both alarm and enthusiasm as strong-arm tactics, including arrests of activists, have been deployed in their name. American Jews have watched with both alarm and ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has long portrayed himself as a steadfast friend and fierce protector of Jewish people the world over. Jewish Americans, however, have been mostly unconvinced, voting ...

But on this one point, Donald Trump wants no ambiguity: “My promise to Jewish Americans is this,” he said on the campaign trail. “With your vote, I will be your defender, your protector ...

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 ...

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 ...