New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is fending off criticism from Jewish leaders in the city over a video published Friday by his office that profiled a “Nakba survivor” whose Palestinian family left ...

This Passover, as for thousands of years, Jews gathered around seder tables will recall the story of our ancestors’ enslavement in Egypt. The purpose of remembering, however, is a little unclear, and, ...

The infamous symbol is inflammatory and inscrutable — it can be used to promote fascism and white supremacy, and to condemn ...

Earlier this week, Rabbi Barry Schwartz wrote about needing more Jewish debate. His blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish ...

The civil rights movement represented a kind of pax romana in Black–Jewish relations — symbolized most enduringly by the ...

Should Jewish philanthropy focus more on helping needy Jewish people? Jack Wertheimer, a history professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, raises this question in an opinion article in Commentary ...

This moment calls for moral seriousness, intellectual honesty, and pastoral sensitivity. I remain committed to all three, ...

On one hand, the argument of Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched and unsparingly honest “Fear No Pharaoh” — that the 150,000 Jews in America at the time of the Civil War had a range of views and ...

Religious coalition lawmakers frame the bill as a return to halachic conversion standards, while opponents say it would hand the religious establishment greater control over Jewish identity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 1 in 5 people in Spain and Portugal today may indeed be of “converso” origin: descendants of Jews or Muslims who converted ...

In primary races across the country, debates over Israel are taking center stage, dividing Democrats and Republicans alike.