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

The new PBS series Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is not the first piece of media to investigate the ...

The four-episode docuseries spans five centuries of Jewish and Black American relations, starting with the slave trade.

In December 2023, Pamela Nadell, a professor of Jewish history at American University, testified alongside the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT at a congressional hearing ...

Israel was established because the Jewish people required more than acceptance in the Diaspora. They required sovereignty, ...

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...

A new Center for Jewish History exhibit running through June 4 spans five decades' worth of images — from the heyday of the havurah movement to the fading glory of the Jewish Lower East Side ...

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 ...

This May, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) will celebrate the inspiring history of Jewish Americans, serving as an antidote to antisemitism by amplifying the true, joyful, and powerful stories of ...

For Jews, the events of October 7—the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust—were horrifying and traumatizing. But what has happened in the three months since is also deeply ...

The history of the Jews in Malta is one of the lesser-known stories across Maltese history - but while never anywhere near being in majority in these islands, the story of the Jews and Malta is one ...

A new exhibition at Yad Vashem highlights the extraordinary efforts made, often at risk of death, to preserve and mark the ...