What is a holiday like Purim doing on the Jewish calendar? What is a book like Esther doing in the Tanakh? Was the holiday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This February marks 50 years since Congress recognized Black History Month. Recently, more than 300 Broward County high ...