Jewish History

How the Nazis planned and executed the systematic murder of European Jewry.

Though he died decades before the State of Israel's establishment, he is considered the country's founding father.

Many Jewish communities have developed unique Passover traditions that make the holiday more lively and relevant.

Jews from Ukraine have made essential contributions to Jewish thought and culture, and have also brought world-class talent to science, art, politics and more.

Communications technology has long enabled the spread of hatred, but the internet and related tools have expanded the reach of anti-Semitism by orders of magnitude.

An Ethiopian Jewish holiday held 50 days after Yom Kippur.

The Nuremberg trials were the best known, but hardly the only efforts to hold perpetrators accountable.

The Jewish ethnic identity most readily recognized by North Americans -- the culture of matzah balls, black-hatted Hasidim, and Yiddish -- originated in medieval Germany.

The German luxury ship, the St. Louis, sailed to Cuba with over 900 passengers on it, only to be turned away and sent back to Europe.