Posts Tagged: Jews in America
The Pathetic Response to the Scourge of Antisemitism
May was Jewish American Heritage Month, which is supposed to recognize and celebrate the achievements of American Jews and their contributions to the United States....
The Story of America’s Non-Jewish, First ‘Jewish Novelist’
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but today’s unforgiving ideologies define it as a form of appropriation or theft -- especially if it...
The Story of Philadelphia’s First Jewish Doctor
Sometimes, the biographies of individuals and cities intersect in ironic ways. A case in point is Dr. David Nassy, a leader of Dutch Suriname’s Sephardic...
How American Jews Championed Righteous Social Change
The years before America’s entry into World War I were an age of progressive reform. In 1912, socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs garnered 6% of...
Benjamin Franklin’s Unintended Influence on the Jewish Community
The 1880s marked the beginnings of the mass migration to the US of Jewish immigrants from Imperial Russia’s Pale of Settlement, whom Germans and German...
Orthodox and Conservative Jews Should Be Natural Allies
JNS.org - Jewish tradition holds that the Second Temple was destroyed by baseless hatred. Since we’re currently in the annual three-week mourning period for the...
Attorney General Tells Jewish Gathering: Trump Administration ‘Aggressively Enforcing’ Hate Crime Laws
The Trump administration is “aggressively enforcing” hate crime laws, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Wednesday in an address to an Orthodox Union gathering in...
Survey: Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals Are Most Well-Liked Religious Groups in America
JNS.org - Jews, Catholics, and Evangelical Christians are the most warmly regarded religious groups in America, while Muslims and Atheists are viewed the least...
