(RNS) — Peace Village in Dimona, Israel, is the largest enclave of African Americans living outside the US. After decades there, some have finally avoided looming deportation. (RNS) — The small ...

Zionism is too often framed as a late 19th-century Eastern and Central European, largely secular movement, born in response ...

Since October 2023, American Jews have been engaged in an intense, fractious debate over Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. Media reports say that American Jews are experiencing "the great rupture," ...

No serious Jew acquainted with history can indulge the illusion that Torah study alone guards Jewish life. Did prayer stop Crusaders at the gates of Mainz? Did holiness prevent Cossack massacres? Did ...

History teaches that nations often fracture not because their enemies overpower them, but because their own internal ...

New York educational institutions have seen more than a year of anti-Israel activists campaigning to condition Jewish identity in public life — whether pressuring their Jewish peers to denounce ...

Jewish identity is not a hobby. It is not nostalgia. It is not a bagel, a joke, a last name, a summer trip, a synagogue ...

With Israel increasingly unpopular and antisemitism on the rise, Jewish politicians find themselves more and more under ...

(RNS) — The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its struggle for recognition in the Jewish state, as more than 100 members seem ...