Jewish History

The quintessential image of home, holiness, and Jewish motherhood is that of a woman blessing the Shabbat candles, performing a ...

Growing up, my favorite day was the annual Israel day parade in Philadelphia. It was a celebration of belonging and identity. ...

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

Recently a friend of mine made a very astute point: “We’re from the Midwest. We don’t do conflict.”His offhanded comment ...

“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a’ la carte.” A recent ...

It was a freezing afternoon outside Warsaw in March 2012, and I was sitting in a cramped hut listening to ...

Is anti-Semitism like pornography? Do we know it when we see it? Absurd on the one hand, this analogy helps ...

Yesterday, the ISJL hosted students from Operation Understanding, an organization whose mission is to develop a group of young African ...

On July 27, the 29th of Tammuz, I will observe the 909th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Yizhaki, better known as ...

I used to think that there were two different mindsets when it came to living Jewishly: the experience of those ...

On the first day of “The History of the Jews in Eastern Europe,” my college professor explained the tension between ...

I am Jewish. I am a historian. And, as my name attests—I am also Cajun French, so I was most ...