PBS series examines the complex history of Black and Jewish alliances, their divisions, and need for unity against white nationalism.
The goal of the book is straightforward: to provide readers with the historical grounding needed to engage seriously in today ...
Authentic dialogue, he writes, requires that each party be allowed to speak for themself (so, for example, Christian educators should not be the primary source of information about Judaism for their ...
If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...
Framing History . The final Israeli hostage, Ran Gvili, has finally been returned for burial. For that, we must give thanks ...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?
As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...
As she scanned her audience, Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich was pleased to see diversity staring back at her. “We are bonded by ...
A secular Jew asked me why I was converting to Judaism. Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age? Did I truly ...
John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...