How History Forged A Land Of Conflict: Understanding The Roots Of The Israel-Palestine Struggle

From Roman renaming of Judaea as Syria Palaestina to the UN Partition Plan of 1947, this 2,000-year timeline traces the ...
The Indianapolis Star

Volunteers work to gather artifacts telling about York County’s Jewish history

The volunteers are organizing and preserving historical items, including timelines, histories, newspaper clippings, and artifacts. They plan to recreate a historical walking tour and are working with ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Jewish History Is the Antidote to Antisemitism

The political and cultural tumults of today call to mind the words of the great Jewish intellectual Milton Himmelfarb in 1967. In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War—when the Jewish people ...
The Forward

It was the wildest scheme in American Jewish history. 200 years later, should it be remembered as a failure?

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Exactly 200 ...
The Jewish Exponent

Rachael Sage, Avi Wisnia to Play Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History will host a concert on Aug. 21, featuring performances by singer-songwriter Rachael Sage and local Philadelphia singer-songwriter Avi Wisnia.