Jewish History

I have had many reactions so far to the recently leaked audio of comments made by Los Angeles Clippers owner ...

I started reading about the fate of the Jews during the Second World War when I was eleven. No one ...

Central Park, in the middle of the city of New York, is 843 acres. The Warsaw Ghetto, in the middle ...

One September afternoon I took the train from Berlin to Warsaw, as my characters had done. I wanted to see ...

As a child, the great Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas noticed that dogs appear in Torah at a crucial moment. On ...

In Iranian prison I didn’t hear the anti-Semitism that I anticipated. For months, I feared revealing my religion to guards. ...

“In the Nazi concentration camps of Germany people had seen the end results of racism.”- Lee Lorch to New York ...

Rabbi (to be) Ari Naveh recently shared how he balances the line between being a gay rabbi—and a rabbi who ...

The more I read and learn about what has been happening in Russia, the more I am afraid for its ...

As someone who has written articles about issues impacting the Jewish community for publications like The Huffington Post, The Denver ...

I recently solved a history mystery, and it started with a tiny pencil.I was looking through a box of old ...

In 1990, I worked with Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, then the site of the largest refugee population in the ...