Gertrude Stein, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”.

Two readers add their observations of Jennifer A. Stern's photo, taken on the lower East Side in the early 1930s ...

Under the stewardship of the Jewish family that owned the factory before World War II, the museum is reclaiming the dilapidated site and its dark history ...

On the ballfields of Montclair, New Jersey, an impromptu game triggers memories of a childhood full of baseball and bible.

Sheriff Fred Harran says Commissioner Bob Harvie needs to apologize to the Jewish community after comments Harvie made earlier this week during the Commissioners meeting on May 7.

It’s too soon to know whether he just had a brief moment or the beginning of a longer moment,” the curator and scholar Ori Soltes told JNS.The post Decades after ...

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is director of the Schulmann School of Basic Jewish Studies and professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of ...

A proposal to bring Florida-based restaurant chain First Watch to Kenosha awaits approval from the Kenosha City Council after ...

A pollinator garden will be planted at Solana Beach City Hall in an effort to support the local monarch butterfly population, following a May 7 vote by the City Council. The garden will cost an ...

May, including multiple Harvey Milk tributes, classic musicals, and a queer take on one; plus drag festivities all the way ...

Ahead of his new travel series, the actor speaks on colonialism, the decline of Christianity and the role that made him a ...

Sheriff Fred Harran, who is Jewish, released a statement on Friday ... “Not nearly as great as what happened in 1920s Italy or 1930s Germany, but certainly not too far away from being in the same ...