Jewish History

A mid-20th-century haven for Jews trying to get away from it all.

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.

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

An excerpt from the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt

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.

A surprise attack on a holy day in 1973.

An excerpt from "The Jewish State"

The espionage conviction of a French military officer was a watershed event in the history of European anti-Semitism.