American Jews

At the 1995 Source Awards, Outkast’s Andre3000, delivered his now iconic shot across the bow in which he informed the hip-hop world that “The South Got Something to Say.” Moving from the margins of…

Days before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey , a Florida synagogue filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s abortion ban on the grounds that it violates Jews’…

Last month, a global consortium of leading scholars released the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), the product of a year-long labor to produce a new working definition of antisemitism that…

Hanukkah isn’t for everyone. This has been true since its beginnings, as it celebrates victory in internecine military conflict and a triumph over assimilation. Even so, the majority of the 15 million…

Under Trump’s presidency there has been a rise in high profile anti-Jewish incidents. Perhaps because these incidents are often perpetrated by white supremacists who hold denigrating racialized views…

What inspired you to write Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism ? There’s a story I tell near the beginning of the book: I was in the midst of researching and writing the book, and a group…

In this RD10Q, historian Zev Eleff uncovers the little-known story of how American Jews became a clergy-led community.

For decades, Jewish leaders outside of Israel have publicly supported the Israeli government, but they have expressed regret for the souls lost on both sides. Is that rhetoric changing?

If traditional notions of Judaism and Jewishness are at odds with the contemporary world, one can either change Judaism, or one can change the world. A new book makes a case for the former.

Not since The Israel Lobby has a Jewish book evoked so much ire and criticism from the American Jewish community.