Spoilers for “History of the World: Part II” follow. (JTA) – Finally fulfilling the promise Mel Brooks made in 1981, the long-belated “History Of The World, Part II” brings us … “Hitler on Ice.” For a ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you asked a Jew in 19th-century Poland, Iraq, or even New York about tikkun olam, they might have shrugged their shoulders and said they didn't know much about it. "It was a pretty obscure term," ...

An election poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev in 1917. The heading reads, "Where we live, there is our country!" We can see the emptiness and barrenness of aligning ourselves with ...

There are many myths surrounding the invention of this Jewish-American culinary icon. But its true origin tells a story of ingenuity and survival. Millions of Americans eat bagels for breakfast daily.