Jews Around the Globe

Jews from Arab lands are gaining more and more influence in Israeli society.

This site in Iraqi Kurdistan was a major Jewish gathering spot on Shavuot.

Amsterdam became a haven for Jewish refugees from the Inquisition.

The largest Jewish community in Latin America has struggled through the economic and political upheavals of the 20th century.

The territories of the former Russian Empire were the cradle of Jewish modernity, the birthplace of Zionism and Jewish socialism, and a major center of the Hasidic movement.

Home to some of the worst antisemitic incidents in European history, British Jews have also found England to be one of the most philo-semitic countries of modern times.

Jews have been present on the Italian peninsula from the time of Judah Maccabee.

Or, the story of how the so-called marranos returned to Judaism.

Challenges encountered by these women in their new society.

In 1887, Mexico announced it would accept 5,000 Russian Jews if they were willing to settle uncultivated land owned by the government.

The land where Hitler once ruled has a burgeoning Jewish community.