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Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting up a procedure to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, ...

We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...

Today is Yom HaShoah, and while the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their collaborators may seem very distant from ...

For those of you with teams in the tournament, or whose brackets are still alive, enjoy the weekend.  I’ve been ...

I’d like to preface today’s post by saying that while I *wish* this were some sort of April Fool’s Day ...

Today’s post features more Jewish history from Kentucky, the most recent state completed in our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities.  When ...

On a recent pit stop I made in a rural part of Tennessee, I found an unexpected statement. There, in ...

Jews across the world are preparing to sit down with their families and read the Haggadah this Passover. Although this is ...

The image above comes from a collection of photographs and papers that belonged to Adele Marcus of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. ...

Purim and drama have always been passions in my family. This year they intertwined in a totally unexpected and unique ...

No American Jew could have experienced a more inspiring introduction to Israel that I did upon arriving in darkness aboard ...

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to conduct a workshop on oral history techniques at Hendrix College in Conway, ...