Towns such as East Palestine, Ohio, were established by 19th-century religious Christian settlers; they chose those names to express their spiritual attachment to the land and people of the Bible.

Visitors to the area might be surprised to discover that Neve Yaakov actually is a major urban community, not at all resembling the stereotypical “settlement” of trailer homes on a windswept hilltop.

From Moscow to Mar-a-Lago, public figures this week were inappropriately invoking Nazi-related terms to denounce developments that did not at all resemble those of the Nazi era.

The real history of the Jews in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district and other Jewish communities in that region is equally harrowing as what’s depicted in the Broadway play “Leopoldstadt.”

The suit that Al Jazeera has filed in the International Criminal Court could shine an embarrassing spotlight on the network itself.

There need to be meaningful consequences which will clearly establish that in contemporary American society, racist humor is no laughing matter.

In many universities in pre-World War II Poland, antisemitic faculty and students humiliated Jewish students by forcing them to sit in the back of classrooms. Those areas came to be known as the “ghetto benches.”

According to Ken Burns’s narrative, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to help the Jews in Europe but was obstructed and undermined by his own State Department.