(RNS) — Despite both having a history of persecution, the groups’ alliance has repeatedly been tested.

PBS' four-part documentary on the Black and Jewish experience in America, presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines how ...

Our history under Islamic rule exposes the moral bankruptcy of anti-Zionism and the fantasy that Jews can survive without sovereignty ...

Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, ...

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?

That instinct is often misunderstood as emotional or impulsive. It is neither. It reflects a way of understanding Jewish life shaped by a long memory of responsibility, one that for some has receded ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. A reported White House plan ...

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 ...

A professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands says helping students after Oct. 7 has given her new insight into her own Jewish identity.

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