Jews have played pivotal roles throughout key moments in American history. Throughout 2026, monthly online conversations with ...

What does it mean to tell Jewish stories in a moment of political polarization and distortion? On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer is joined by historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela to ...

An ongoing connection between Black and Jewish communities is fueling a push for Tolliver Temple, already a Seattle landmark, ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. A reported White House plan ...

Purim is widely depicted as the most joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits and noisemakers.

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 ...

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...

Jewish India is over 2000 years old. Historical Hindu India was and is today almost entirely devoid of the oldest institutionalized hatred on earth, antisemitism.  Deeply distressing to Jews worldwide ...

Contemporary Jewish artist Alex Levin creates powerful paintings inspired by Jerusalem, Jewish history, and biblical ...