PHILADELPHIA, April 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This May, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) will celebrate the inspiring history and vibrant living culture of Jewish Americans, serving as an antidote ...

Introduction: Searching the patterns. -- Patterns of evidence: identifying small communities. -- Patterns of settlement: the early years. -- Patterns of settlement: the era of mass migration. -- ...

As long as Jews have been Jews, from God’s call to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12, our identity has been measured by way of ...

In rural America, Jewish burial often meant long journeys to city cemeteries — even as towns kept vigil at home.

The Jews of America may be the largest Jewish community in the Diaspora, but that does not mean Israeli schoolchildren learn much about them. Sixty-two years after Israel’s founding, its school system ...

WASHINGTON — Every May, the United States honors Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM), which is a time to recognize the rich culture, history and contributions of Jewish Americans who’ve helped shape ...

Not many Jewish Americans can trace their roots in this country back five generations, but I can. With that comes not just pride in legacy, but also a unique sense of responsibility always to remember ...

As historian Karen Brodkin tells it, socialism was “hegemonic” in American Jewish life before the Cold War. Not in the sense that every American Jew was a socialist, but rather that a “working class” ...

The former home of pushcarts, pickle peddlers and textile wholesalers welcomes a new crop of Jewish spots to the Lower East Side street. For a trip through New York City’s Jewish history and a glimpse ...

I still remember the first time I visited European Jewish communities as CEO of ADL. It was about a decade ago, early in my new role. In Paris, I stood inside the Hypercacher kosher supermarket, where ...

Since the time the United States was but a coalition of villages and settlements, America’s Jewish citizens have played an indispensable role in our national story. They arrived as farmers, soldiers, ...