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In the midst of ongoing war and protest, politicians and journalists explore the complexities of Jewish American responses to global and national conflicts.
According to a 2022 study, 5.5 million Americans use hallucinogens a year, often for a "spiritual" experience. What would the ...
A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...
Michael Halperin, author of the Holocaust novel 'Jacob's Rescue,' also developed the 'bible' for He-Man and 'Masters of the ...
Known as "Pesach" in Hebrew, Passover commemorates pivotal events in the Book of Exodus. Jews celebrate the freeing of ...
The author of "Antisemitism, An American Tradition" laments cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Scholars program.
It lacks the great narratives of the first two books and is full of rules and regulations ... term “kosher” did not refer to food in the Hebrew Bible; kosher meant something close to what ...
Left with a Jewish identity in name only, Adam Sobsey traveled to his great-grandparents' hometown in Romania to see what he ...
Probing the disciplines, and the manners in which each operates, generates an understanding of human endeavors and history ...
Starring as Liesel’s foster parents are Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson, while the Jewish refugee Max Vandenburg is played by ...
In David Denby’s group portrait, the artists and intellectuals he celebrates share a capacity to surprise, unsettle and, ...
The Passover story has come to function as a powerful narrative of persecution and liberation for Jewish people.