Jewish History

The Jewish impact on American intellectual culture.

Twenty-three refugees from Brazil established the first Jewish community in the future U.S.

The havurah movement and The Jewish Catalog blended Judaism with the 1960s counterculture.

"Freedom to observe, freedom to neglect," in the words of one 19th-century rabbi

In America around the turn of the 20th century, Jews had the freedom to not observe religion and rabbis were scarce.

Beyond the settler movement.

An excerpt from the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt

Remembering the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

The United Nations responds to Israel's territorial gains in the Six Day War.

The Yom Kippur War led to a fragile but lasting peace between Israel and Egypt.

Since the beginning of modern Zionism, some Jews have stood in opposition to it.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz believed traditional Judaism has no precedent for a modern Jewish state like Israel.