An ancient Jewish text has been discovered and returned 80 years after it was looted from a Hungarian seminary during the occupation of the Nazis in 1944. An announcement by the U.S. Attorney's Office ...

For many years, I’ve stood with members of my congregation in our cemetery — not to bury a person, but to bury books. There are no eulogies. We lower tattered prayer books, weathered bibles, Passover ...

A man checked out dozens of books on Jewish history and other marginalized topics from a public library in a heavily Jewish Cleveland suburb before filming himself apparently setting fire to them, ...

Jerusalem is arguably the most contentious city in the world, so any work discussing it, let alone one that explores its four millennia of history, is bound to be controversial. But the 256-page ...

BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland’s 25th annual Jewish Book Festival is about to return for its second chapter. The Mandel JCC held seven author events in November ...

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 ...

The world is erupting with flat out antisemitism and Jew hatred—and it’s terrible. That’s why we”ve been working to put together an ever-evolving Jewish book list ideal for people of all backgrounds.

It seemed like an impossible dream: Jews resettling the land of Israel in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Everything seemed against it. The area was an economic and agricultural wasteland. Ottoman ...

In the midst of ongoing war and protest, politicians and journalists explore the complexities of Jewish American responses to global and national conflicts. By Benjamin Moser Benjamin Moser is the ...