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Highlights from the comedic producer's funniest movies.

Israel's most famous and successful spy.

Few Jewish comedians have made such a significant contribution to both Jewish humor and popular culture as this daughter of saloon-owning immigrants.

How the Priestly Blessing is manifested within the community's needs.

In 1927, Ford's anti-Semitism brought him, for one of the few times in his life, to humiliation.

The first Israeli astronaut.

Washington promises no sanction to bigotry, and no assistance to persecution.

Simon Bamberger was the first non-Mormon governor in a state where even Jews are "gentiles."

Unlike more famous Jewish mobsters like Meyer Lansky, this notorious Brooklyn mafioso was put to death — and then almost forgotten.

Solomon Hays and his family were excommunicated from Shearith Israel in New York City due to causing a disturbance over a simple window.

Was this slain Jewish immigrant really seeking to assassinate Chicago's police chief?