Mr Rubinstein and Ms Solomon are part of the university's Jewish Society, and were first inspired by a mutual friend, who ...

As Christa Whitney sees it, chance has played a big part in her life. But so has her love of history and literature. Whitney is the director of the Wexler Oral History Project at the Yiddish Book ...

We can happily say on the occasion of this sixtieth anniversary that Nostra Aetate opened the way to a fundamental transformation of Catholic-Jewish relations. This is not to say that problems don’t ...

Gresham Bader’s “Our Spiritual Heroes-Seven centuries of Jewish Thought” (Minister Publishing Co., Brooklyn ) is all the title claims for it, and more. It is a fascinating and admirably written book ...

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When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...

For most young adults, Rabin’s assassination is something they learned about in history class, at a day school assembly or ...

What if Alaska is home of a big Jewish settlement and the fledgling state of Israel was destroyed? That is the setup of a TV series project based on Michael Chabon’s acclaimed 2007 alternative history ...

Oral historians Aliza Becker and Noah Schoen have conducted more than one hundred interviews about the attacks. This week, a ...