The latest series from PBS stalwart and scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History ...

PBS series examines the complex history of Black and Jewish alliances, their divisions, and need for unity against white nationalism.

The goal of the book is straightforward: to provide readers with the historical grounding needed to engage seriously in today ...

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Middle East History at Sciences Po. Throughout his childhood, he was not even aware a Jewish community ever existed in Iraq. As a ...

A professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands says helping students after Oct. 7 has given her new insight into her own Jewish identity.

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 ...

Framing History . The final Israeli hostage, Ran Gvili, has finally been returned for burial. For that, we must give thanks ...

It was very emotional to go back through so many years of both Jewish and world history. I am not a good candidate for emotions, as I can cry when somebody gets sent home from Master Chef. One can see ...

"The problem is that we haven't known each other enough. There is a current refusal to accept the other and believe that ...

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