The Jewish Historical Society of Long Island has released a documentary to kick off the celebration of the Jewish community’s 150th anniversary on Long Island. Brad Kolodny, president of the Jewish ...

It was very emotional to go back through so many years of both Jewish and world history. I am not a good candidate for emotions, as I can cry when somebody gets sent home from Master Chef. One can see ...

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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?

Few words are as disturbing to Jews as the word “expulsion.” For Jews, it is a word laden with the weight of terrible memories that reach back thousands of years. In the chronicle of Jewish biblical ...

Before it was a symbol, before it was carved into bronze, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masse yearning to breathe free” was just ink on paper, a poem to raise funds for the pedestal ...

Exactly 200 years ago, on September 15, 1825, a self-governing Jewish colony was ceremonially dedicated on Grand Island in northern New York State, just a few miles downstream from Buffalo on the ...

John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...

As Cornell’s Jewish community grapples with antisemitic threats and a tense campus culture following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Sun explored the larger history of Jewish student ...

Millions of people worldwide are preparing to celebrate the annual Jewish holiday of Passover. Though they often occur around the same time, Lent is a 40-day period observed by Christians, while ...