Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. A reported White House plan ...

Public domain A few weeks ago, after catching a 5:37 a.m. Megillah reading courtesy of a kind-hearted and early-rising friend ...

A new exhibit at the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri, explores the history of Jewish people in the Ozarks. The exhibit, "Creating Community: Jews of Springfield," features ritual ...

Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?

A reported White House plan, announced May 4, to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former prison on an island off San Francisco that has been closed for over 60 years, has been dismissed by Izzy Gardon, ...