The University of Chicago Chronicle6d
Paul Mendes-Flohr, preeminent scholar of modern Jewish thought, 1941-2024
Prof. Emeritus Paul Mendes-Flohr, a leading University of Chicago scholar of intellectual history in modernity, modern Jewish ...
Jweekly.com1d
In Warsaw, a Jewish museum is marking 10 years — thanks to Bay Area donors
We have Bay Area Jewish donors to thank the 10th anniversary of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency1d
How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music
The collection acquired by NYPL’s Dorot Jewish Division includes close to 4,000 musical works — including cantorial music, ...
Radio Havana Cuba6d
UK police detain Jewish scholar Haim Bresheeth following pro-Palestine address
Recent legislative changes, including the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2022 (PCSC) and the Public Order Act 2023 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency7d
What Christian nationalism has in store for Jews and other religious minorities
Christian nationalists, who make up a segment of Donald Trump's base, are working to pull the country in a direction that ...
The New York Times22d
Yehuda Bauer, 98, Scholar Who Saw Jewish Resistance in Holocaust, Dies
A leading historian of antisemitism, he countered the prevailing narrative of Jewish victimhood and later pushed back against efforts to diminish the Holocaust’s significance. By Clay Risen ...
The Times of Israel13d
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Israeli-American authority on Martin Buber, dies at 83
JTA — Paul Mendes-Flohr was introduced to the writings of the German-Jewish scholar and philosopher Martin Buber when he was 18 and volunteering on a kibbutz in Israel. “Of course, I didn’t ...
New York Sun1d
Army Veteran of 25 Years Condemns ‘Disgusting’ Anti-Veterans Day Protest at Columbia University
A retired army Major, John Spencer, who, after serving in the military for over 25 years, is now a leading scholar on urban ...
Yahoo28d
What is Chabad-Lubavitch? A Jewish studies scholar explains
As someone who was raised in a Lubavitch community and became a scholar of sociology and Jewish studies, I am often asked what sets it apart from other Orthodox streams of Judaism. Hasidism began ...