Jews in America

A century before Trump targeted Somalis, Jews faced politics of blame 

In 1908, New York City Police Commissioner Theodore A. Bingham claimed Jews accounted for half of New York’s crimes.

The crowded "Hebrew district" of New York's Lower East Side, c. 1907.
A Jewish family decorates their windows for Hanukkah in Houston in December 2008.

When my children decorate for Hanukkah, I don’t just see pride, I see pluralism in action - opinion

MIRIAM ADELSON looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, December 16, 2025.

Trump expresses friendship, love, support, for Jews at White House Hanukkah celebration

Crowds watch the Israel Day on Fifth parade on June 2, 2024 in New York City

As Mamdani’s victory reverberates beyond NYC, Jews must choose solidarity over shock - opinion


18 notable Jews who died in 2022

These well-known Jewish icons leave outsized legacies on politics, the arts, sports and everything in between.

 American author Melissa Bank poses during a portrait session in Paris, Jan. 9, 2006.

The ‘Hanukkah House’ in Brooklyn is a family tradition and a neighborhood treasure

Starting as a lark, it has now grown into a grand tradition and a neighborhood treasure, attracting neighbors and visitors from around Brooklyn. 

English Cake bakery prepares for Hanukkah with freshly baked donuts, or sufganiyot, December 6, 2022.

Will a right-wing government in Israel further alienate US Jewry?

US-ISRAELI AFFAIRS: Leaders of US Jewish organizations have different opinions about the future of relations with the Jewish state.

 Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stage to speak at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, in 2018.

The origins of the 'Jews run Hollywood' trope, echoed by Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle isn’t the first to suggest that Jews run Hollywood. Here are the origins of the trope.

 Dave Chappelle introduces Jay-Z during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, US October 30, 2021.

AIPAC-allied PAC spends more than $1 million to oppose progressive Summer Lee

A political action committee affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is spending upwards of $1 million in a second bid to oppose Summer Lee.

 THEN-PRIME minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC Conference in Washington in 2018.

Cormac McCarthy’s new novels follow two Jews named ‘Western’

In his new books, McCarthy is exploring a new soil: the American Jewish experience.

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The octogenarian ‘who is a Jew?’ sports writing team calls it quits after 25 years

After 25 years of identifying Jewish athletes from college to the pros to the Olympics, The Jewish Sports Review ended its activity.

 The Jewish Sports Review has ceased publication after a 25-year run.

Why the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to an end -opinion

The decline in the favorability of mainstream American views toward Israel has coincided with a rise in antisemitic violence, particularly in large metropolises, promoted by Islamo-Leftist groups.

 Is the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to its end

When the Torah cycle ended, their Russian-American romance began

Tamar Caplan and Alex Zeldin's love story is a Jewish Russian-American story.

 Tamar Caplan, seated, gazes into Alex Zeldin's eyes during a ceremony that was part of their wedding.

How anti-Israel faculty are radicalizing US campuses - opinion

Higher education institutions should not be tolerating offensive and demoralizing anti-Zionist speech and harassment that make Jewish and Zionist students feel unsafe and unwelcome.

 Rabbi Evan Goodman and students Tyler Barth, Romi Benasuly, and Lian Benasuly, look at a pre-pandemic social calendar at Santa Barbara Hillel near the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus in Isla Vista