1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (332+ words) In Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship, Prof. Lila Corwin Berman explores the intertwined, controversial issues surrounding the history of Jewish citizenship in the US....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (921+ words) Wednesday, September 9, marked 50 years since the death of Mao Zedong, the Chinese revolutionary leader whose long shadow is still cast over Asian and world geopolitics. For almost three decades after proclaiming the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (407+ words) The NIS 2 million safety and preservation project is funded by the Israel Land Authority (ILA) through its Fund for the Protection of Open Areas, with execution managed by the Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority. As part of the initiative, crews…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (354+ words) Hundreds of thousands of Jewish students around the world will receive a personal letter and video message from 98-year-old Holocaust survivor and educator Nate Leipciger as they return to campus for the new academic year, amid rising antisemitism since October…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1686+ words) For Adrianna Turk, 74, the past was long defined by a profound, unyielding silence. Growing up, family history was not discussed; it was a blank space, a closed door behind which lay the devastating wreckage of the Holocaust. Her father, originally…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1081+ words) I’m standing with my husband at the port in Thessaloniki, a vital commercial hub on the Aegean Sea connecting Southern Europe with the Balkans. I’m thinking of the Jewish stevedores who once worked these docks, and of those who later…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (907+ words) Shortly after the destruction of the First Temple, in the Greek city of Athens around the year 500 BCE, the process of democratic voting began. Soon after, other Greek city-states followed suit. Voting was not open to all. It was a…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (864+ words) There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Thus posited Mark Twain, who attributed the origin of that scathing observation to 19th-century Jewish British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The saying suggests that attempting to encapsulate some event or…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (933+ words) Marc David Baer is a professor of history at the London School of Economics. “For the past 10 years,” he wrote recently, “I have taught a seminar… titled ‘Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe.’ Many of…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (837+ words) Asa-El’s book, The Jewish March of Folly: The Dramatic Events, Fateful Results, and Unlearned Lessons of Ancient Israel’s Political Suicide, was a best-selling sensation when it was first published in Hebrew in 2019. Assessing the past, it warned of an inbred,…...