Judaism

The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.

The outlines of “salvation antiquarianism”—with the emphasis on “saving”—appears particularly clearly in the AAS’s inaugural 1813 address.

Conservative Judaism’s origins lie in a donor plan to neutralize and refine the radical Jewish immigrant masses.

In the 19th century, Purim became an occasion to hold parties to raise money for charities. These parties helped American Jews gain a standing among the elite.

For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.

How a term that sounds inclusive is used to promote exclusion.

Histories of the Jews reveal a lot about the times in which they were written.

Searching for where I belong, I find myself cobbling together a mongrel Judaism—half-remembered and contradictory and all mine.

Since colonial times, the Book of Esther has proved a powerful metaphor in American politics.

In resurrecting stories of non- and anti-Zionist critics, a new book shows American Jews how questioning Israel is deeply rooted in their community.

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.

'All men are created equal' coexisted with the understanding that not all were meant to be treated equally in life.

Alexander Hamilton always believed that the providential protection that kept the small Jewish world alive would embrace his own extraordinary nation.

Requiring rest, rather than work, is still a radical idea.

While most Jewish immigrants flocked to urban centers, a few -- like the Greenbergs -- tried their luck as homesteaders.

On the 50th anniversary of "The Jewish Catalog."

That status has been taken as obvious, then questioned, then reasserted over the decades.

A collaboration between advertiser Joseph Jacobs and the famous coffee company produced the classic U.S. haggadah.

The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.

The life of Judah Benjamin, a Southern Jew who served in the Confederate government, can tell us only so much about the American Jewish encounter with slavery.