Negotiating assimilation and distinctiveness.

Peeps! Tootsie Rolls! Peanut Chews!

The internet is up in arms over a recent article from food writer Tejal Rao in The New York Times: ...

In America around the turn of the 20th century, Jews had the freedom to not observe religion and rabbis were scarce.

Music has been a part of Jewish life since biblical times, and remains integral to Jewish religious and cultural experiences.

A novel by Anzia Yezierska.

Jewish classics get Mexican flavors from this new Chicago bakery.

Yiddish-speaking Jews put faith in the language of their new country and left an indelible mark on American letters.

"Freedom to observe, freedom to neglect," in the words of one 19th-century rabbi

An exuberant Sephardic custom whose origins are the subject of debate