The news that President Carter’s United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the mostly Jewish residents of the new high-rise condominiums along southern Florida’s Gold Coast.
That Israel’s existence is miraculous is clear—as every respondent made sure to let us know—but the rest, like everything in Judaism, is up for debate.
A group of Turkish Jews is championing the revival of the 500-year-old Judeo-Spanish language
As the number of survivors shrinks, their experiences can be preserved, as new innovations allow us to hear those we’ve lost.
Helena’s synagogue was sold to the state in 1935, but now Temple Emanu-El is back in Jewish hands.
The Montana Jewish Project hopes to purchase Temple Emanu-El—constructed in 1890 during a colorful, obscure chapter of Jewish history—from the Diocese of Helena.
Following in the footsteps of her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, the biblical scholar is at the forefront of the march toward social justice and reframing Judaism in the tradition of the prophets.
Munich in the years following World War I was a nasty, bloody microcosm of the political catastrophes in Europe that preceded and followed Germany’s defeat in that war.
I immediately understood that I was being confronted, face-to-face, with the uncomfortable scenario that hangs over every Israeli who today lives in a formerly Arab-owned house.
On July 1,1942, Cairo was about to fall to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s German and Italian forces.
