Here’s a primer on his Jewish story, the other Jewish characters he met while developing the Manhattan Project and how the movie portrays it all. The German Jew who was “neither German nor ...

It’s ironic that the latest pogrom happened the week of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom throughout Germany, an event that was not only threatening to Jews, but a test the ...

The last known Jew from Afghanistan, Zablon Simantov, travelled to Israel from Turkey, surprising his family, Walla was told this week. "My younger brother called me on Thursday around 9-10 p.m ...

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Photo: John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images The Jewish year, which ended Oct. 2, was a terrible one for the Jewish people. Those in Israel endured Hamas’s savagery, while many in the ...

Donald Trump recently said that all American Jews should vote for him. There is a strong argument for the opposite. As a Jew who grew up in the 1950s, the horror of the Holocaust was part of ...

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“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were ...

Everyone knows pork isn’t kosher. So why, then, are Jews so obsessed with it? For nearly all of Jewish history, pigs have been inescapable. During eras of Roman rule, rulers would challenge Jews ...

Steph Simon announced the ninth annual Dreamland Festival is moving to the historic Greenwood District. All events and programming will be held around Greenwood Avenue and Archer Street in ...