From settlers to the Sunshine State: The Jewish journey in Florida | Commentary

Columnist Jason Touvi writes, “the Jewish story in Florida is not only about the past, but also about living, growing, and contributing in the present.” ...
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The Kotel: National Holy Site of the Jewish People

The legal status of the Kotel — among a list of other holy sites (e.g., Maarat Hamachpelah– the burial cave of the matriarchs ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
The Republican Herald

Collapsed Mahanoy City synagogue recalls an era when Jewish temples thrived in Schuylkill County

When Bernard Shanfield made one of his weekly checks on Beth Israel Synagogue in May 1997, paint was peeling off its walls ...
Texas Monthly

The Surprising, Fraught History of the Texan Jewish Experience

The broad wooden trunk with floral engravings looks impossibly heavy. But in the early 1900s, Rachmiel “Robert” Shapiro carried it with him as he sneaked out of Russia and made his way to the United ...