Exactly 100 years ago, on Jan. 4, 1926, legendary American Jewish songwriter Irving Berlin married Ellin Mackay, a Roman ...

As Joe Biden’s wobbly performance at his June matchup against Donald Trump proved, sometimes presidential debates really are consequential. In the since-reconfigured and exceedingly tight race between ...

(The Conversation) — In connection to Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, media from the BBC and Fox to Reuters and Haaretz reported on new DNA evidence about the holiday’s original namesake.

“We want to call that community into account for failing to uphold the values it claims to profess,” says Joshua Leifer. Joshua Leifer suspected that his new book about the history of American Jewish ...

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, ...

Andrew Cuomo interjected during Wednesday night’s final mayoral debate when anti-Israel front-runner Zohran Mamdani tried to reassure Jewish New Yorkers that he would also represent them, if elected.

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 ...