In a new book, Belgian-born scholar Flora Cassen reaches back to the Middle Ages to understand the current climate of Jewish insecurity.

Each new attack, like the London stabbings last week, brings a heightened sense of caution to an already wary population.

(RNS) — What does a Jewish text message usually say? “Start worrying … details to follow.” That is the way it has been lately. So, Jews — and in this particular case, Reform Jews — are overdue for ...

(RNS) — Habemus papam! We have a pope! By “we,” I do not only mean the Roman Catholic Church. For the first time, “we” includes the United States of America, as Pope Leo XIV is the first American pope ...

The Battle of Cable Street, a 1936 street scuffle off an obscure stretch of road in London’s East End, holds a totemic ...

Jacob Kornbluh, the Forward’s senior political reporter, is in Milwaukee this week covering the Republican National Convention. He will also be reporting from the Democratic National Convention in ...

Left-wing Jews are wrestling with thorny questions: What will American Jewish communities look like now? And how will they think about Israel? Left-wing Jews are wrestling with thorny questions: What ...

A new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital ...

A new JFNA survey finds strong support for Israel but widespread discomfort with the “Zionist” label among the youngest and oldest Jews. The newest Jewish Federations of North America survey has ...

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the Oct. 7 massacres. An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of ...

The dentist’s phone started ringing one day in July. And it wouldn’t stop. The menacing calls and messages kept coming, flooding the Freehold office’s landline. Extremists then inundated Rimma Chertog ...

One terrifying assault after another on Jews. “Not terrorism,” the authorities reassure us; rather “targeted attacks on the Jewish community.” To a Jew, this is hardly reassuring. For American Jews ...