As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...

(RNS) — The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its struggle for recognition in the Jewish state, as more than 100 members seem ...

Since October 2023, American Jews have been engaged in an intense, fractious debate over Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. Media reports say that American Jews are experiencing "the great rupture," ...

History is not a battleground where facts can be reshaped at will. It is a record that constrains narratives, whether convenient or not. When that record is manipulated, the result is not empowerment.

A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.

The police arrested the owner of the store in Keyport, N.J., on criminal weapons charges. By Christina Goldbaum and Ashley Southall Inside the harrowing rampage that left a police officer and three ...

Long Island’s first Jewish congregation was established in 1875 in Breslau, modern-day Lindenhurst, where the group purchased a half-acre of land in a cemetery. The Island’s first synagogue was built ...

Teenage girls in Jewish day schools are consistently less confident than boys in political and historical discussions. That’s a systemic failure, writes a professor of Jewish studies and sociology.

(RNS) — Peace Village in Dimona, Israel, is the largest enclave of African Americans living outside the US. After decades there, some have finally avoided looming deportation. (RNS) — The small ...