Today, maintaining a stable order is crucial to preserving liberty. The pogrom in Amsterdam should serve as a wake-up call ...

And then it leads to metaphorical and real violence.” While such anti-Jewish feeling hardly disappeared, the emancipation of Jews in Europe created a new stage in the relationship between Jews ...

Following the enlightenment and western Europe’s emancipation of its Jewish subjects, the very definition of Judaism became a pertinent question. For centuries, Jews had lived as a people apart ...

A scholar of modern Jewish intellectual history, philosophy and religious thought, he edited and wrote 62 books and taught ...

German Jewish refugees looking through portholes ... Against the winds of emancipation and assimilation that swept through 19th-century Europe, pious Jews held on tight to their way of life ...

Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true? The definitive essay on the subject comes to us from Jonathan Sarna of ...

Forrest should know that there are two sides to any conflict and then there is the truth. Bolstering one’s prejudices with tendentious accounts is an abuse of history.

The towering structure, built in 1874 to mark Jewish emancipation after a 400-year ban, was “architecturally offensive,” Streicher explained during his war crimes trial. On Oct. 5, 1938 ...

Standard Jewish prayers for the government, writes a scholar of Judaism and technology, omit the essential players in any ...

The English Forward was launched as a weekly in 1990. Its perspective on world and national news, and its unparalleled coverage of Jewish arts culture and opinion have made it the most influential ...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement, and Jewish ...