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NY’s rural 120-year-old ‘Peddlers’ Synagogue’ charts new path — without a congregation
By
Luke Tress
Beth Joseph in the Adirondack Mountains is a monument to Jews’ role on the American frontier. Those with ties to its former Jewish community will gather on July 13 to honor its birthday
July 11, 2025, 3:33 am
NY’s rural 120-year-old ‘Peddlers’ Synagogue’ charts new path — without a congregation
Beth Joseph in the Adirondack Mountains is a monument to Jews’ role on the American frontier. Those with ties to its former Jewish community will gather on July 13 to honor its birthday
By
Luke Tress
June 23, 2025, 1:58 am
With Albert Einstein safe in NJ, how vengeful Nazis hunted down his cousin Robert
Acclaimed British author Thomas Harding’s new book ‘The Einstein Vendetta’ focuses on brutal murders in a remote Italian villa during the final hours of the German occupation
By
Robert Philpot
May 19, 2025, 4:37 am
How trailblazing US labor secretary Frances Perkins quietly lobbied for Holocaust refugees
While the labor activist is famous for being the first female Cabinet member, on the 60th anniversary of her death, a new book explores her overlooked efforts to help Jews fleeing the Nazis
By
Rich Tenorio
April 18, 2025, 5:11 pm
How Jewish patriots in the US Revolutionary War helped shape the First Amendment
In new book ‘A Promised Land,’ history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews – then just 0.1% of the population – in fighting for independence and forging America
By
Rich Tenorio
March 4, 2025, 2:32 pm
Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US
When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, ‘A Different Russia,’ serves as both warning and plea
By
Mordechai I. Twersky
January 11, 2025, 5:52 am
A long-abandoned Christian theme park sits just off a US highway. Will it rise again?
Shuttered in 1984, Connecticut’s Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a local priest works for its resurrection
By
Cathryn J. Prince
July 3, 2024, 1:24 am
How a Jewish German woman in NY became America’s first major crime boss in 1859
Margalit Fox’s new book uncovers the fascinating life and capers of Fredericka Mandelbaum, who fenced stolen property and orchestrated complicated jewel heists and bank robberies
By
Renee Ghert-Zand
January 26, 2024, 1:29 am
‘Origin’ story: How Ava DuVernay’s new movie connects the Holocaust, slavery and caste
Based on Isabel Wilkerson’s bestseller, the drama, now in theaters, includes a portrayal of the real-life author and uses historical recreations to capture the book’s cerebral tone
By
Andrew Lapin
January 23, 2024, 12:53 am
New PBS documentary ‘Nazi Town, USA’ looks at 1930s heyday of Hitler’s US admirers
A packed Madison Square Garden giving the Nazi salute and a fascist summer camp show the German American Bund at its peak, with 100,000 members
By
Linda Buchwald
December 21, 2023, 8:58 pm
Is American democracy safe? These historians say the US may be slipping toward fascism
The editors of ‘Fascism in America: Past and Present’ posit that though most Americans see the idea as ‘unrealistic in the extreme,’ there’s nothing fictional about it
By
Cathryn J. Prince
August 11, 2023, 9:56 pm
From Rick Rubin to Doja Cat, Jews have helped shape the first 50 years of hip-hop
As the genre that influenced music the world over celebrates its 50th birthday, a look at Jewish contributions on stage and behind the scenes
By
Andrew Esensten
February 8, 2023, 10:39 am
Honoring a US rabbi who went down with his torpedoed warship 80 years ago this month
Mark Auerbach works to preserve the memory of his relative Alexander Goode, an army chaplain who gave away his lifejacket and calmed panicked soldiers after a German U-boat attack
By
Lisa Keys
December 3, 2022, 9:13 am
A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past
Poet and journalist Clint Smith pens an insightful analysis on seeing Germany’s commemoration of the Holocaust firsthand and how it impacts his conception of US penance for slavery
By
Andrew Silow-Carroll
September 19, 2022, 2:38 pm
The uncomfortable truths in new documentary by Ken Burns, ‘The US and the Holocaust’
The three-part miniseries airing this week recognizes a part of WWII history many Americans are unfamiliar with – or would prefer not to know about
By
Jordan Hoffman
September 4, 2022, 3:14 am
The undelivered speeches that reveal a series of unrealized alternate US histories
In his new book, presidential speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum opens the archives, uncovering the scenarios American leaders had prepared for — and the ones they avoided by keeping mum
By
Rich Tenorio
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