Minnie Low was a thinker well ahead of her time.

After a distinguished career in military and public service to the United States, Marcus helped Israel win its War of Independence.

So God is just like you and me, right? Maimonides explains why the Bible's descriptions of God can't be taken literally.

Thomas Jefferson was a strong advocate for civic equality and religious freedom for American Jews.

The lives of Jewish peddlers wandering the country were difficult, rough, and filled with religious challenges.

Meyer London, a Socialist Jew, was a politician who not only ran for Congress, but his economic proposals were advanced for his time, and they later were encompassed in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal platform.

A brief history of the place where so many Jewish immigrants entered the U.S.

Celebrating women's history, one month at a time.

This 20th-century rabbi was the leading Jewish law authority of his generation.

Smoked meat and hand-rolled bagels are replacing some of the old-school delis of the midwest.