GREENVILLE, N.C. (Stacker.com) — One of the most compelling reasons for early settlers to immigrate to the Americas was to exercise their right to religious freedom. As a result, members of several ...

In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...

(JTA) — The history of Jewish identity and politics in America has been told as a triumph of spiritual renewal (“A Certain People,” Charles Silberman, 1986), as an overdue flexing of political muscle ...

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 ...

NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect proper terminology, changing the incorrectly used literary loans to Liberty Loans. LANCASTER −A history of Jewish tradition in Lancaster has been ...