For many St. Louis Jews under the age of 60, the first time many of us ever heard the word Uganda was in 1976, when terrorists hijacked an Air France plane to Entebbe, Uganda. There, the terrorists separated passengers into Jews and non-Jews....

  (JTA) — When Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani were jointly honored at a left-wing Jewish event in September, the two politicians’ alliance was at the center of the evening. Lander, who had cross-endorsed Mamdani in the Democratic...

This story is the first in a new series called "The Hidden Museum," which explores remarkable artifacts from St. Louis museums, pieces of history rarely seen by the public. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum holds more than 660 artifacts in...

You won’t find professor Mark Roseman on the frontlines of any campus protests or posting his unfiltered political thoughts on social media. His current project, a four-volume history of the Holocaust published by Cambridge University, is unlikely to...

(JTA) — Adolf Hitler had a sexual disorder that made it more likely for him to have a micro-penis, according to the first-ever analysis of his DNA. He also did not have the Jewish ancestors that some have claimed he had. New scrutiny as Hitler...

(JTA) — When Michael Smuss died last month at 99, an era of Jewish history came to a close. Smuss was the last known resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews rose up against their Nazi persecutors in one of the most dramatic...

  Last year, during an informal poll of Jewish Light readers, less than 1% of respondents said they had a TikTok account or had ever viewed content on the platform. Well, now if there was ever a reason to join TikTok, this may be it: Fran...

A coalition of progressive Jewish organizations is condemning the Anti-Defamation League for what it calls “Islamophobic and racist” attacks on New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. In a statement released Tuesday, the groups criticized the...

  Israeli director/screenwriter Joseph Cedar’s next film project, a thriller called “Useful Idiots,” is set to star Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Friday. Cedar will direct the film from a script...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. “The beautiful little synagogue was filled to capacity,” the Tupper Lake Herald reported on February 12, 1915. “Many...

  When artisan ice cream maker Tamara Keefe of Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery reached out to Mexican-born Jewish pastry chef and cookbook author Fany Gerson, the collaboration seemed destined to be deliciously unconventional. Keefe...