Jewish History

Hey kids, it’s that time of week again, where you get to exercise your democratic right to give your opinion ...

Last year there was a sad story of a synagogue in Tajikistan that had to be destroyed because the government ...

This is a how-to guide. Fame is an arbitrary thing, where the spokesperson for a certain person or issue is ...

Yesterday’s New York Times profiled the recent rise in home birthing, a concept that started out as the only option ...

The Telegraph has reprinted an article that was first published on November 12, 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. What’s so ...

From our friend Kung Fu Jew: kungfujew18 is praying, “Barack atah Illinois, Elohenu melech ha’olam, hoo-ray p’ri ha-electoral landslide.”

We didn’t get it together to put up a Veterans Day post yesterday, but I wanted to mention that there ...

The sadly no-longer-updated site Jew of the Day was a great gimmick for teaching about random Jewish people — from ...

Kadima’s Tzipi Livni, Likud’s Binyamin Netanyahu and Labor’s Ehud Barak all want to sound like Obama (Jerusalem Post).Ari Shavit sees ...

No: Rahm Emanuel is not strictly observant — at least, not in the Joe Lieberman sense of the word. But ...

I heard this story on Sunday morning while making French toast, and I have to say, it made me feel ...

Last night I got a call from a student at the University of Iowa asking me to give some money ...