Many among the secular, including me, grew up believing the sheitel, the ritual wig worn by married Orthodox and Hasidic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTRAIT OF Aaron Sapiro, the Jewish lawyer who sued Henry Ford. (photo credit: Courtesy/Sapiro v. Ford) Sapiro v. Ford will be ...

Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience depicts one of the most delightful yet often overlooked chapters of American Jewish ...

A 20-year-old tradition in the Pioneer Valley holds an even deeper meaning this year. The Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival ...

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American Black Journal previews the new PBS documentary series from Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. called "Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History." Host Stephen Henderson discusses the film's ...

This question permeated the Howard Thurman Center on March 16 as students, faculty and members of the wider Boston University community gathered to watch “Sabbath Queen” — a documentary 21 years in ...

YouTuber Nick Shirley has been endorsing a documentary made by fellow YouTuber ‘Tyler Oliveira’, problematically called “New Jersey's Jewish Invasion.” This week, 23-year-old Shirley replied to a post ...

When Judd Apatow was growing up on Long Island, there was no debate about who ruled the comedy world. “Nobody was funnier than Mel Brooks,” Apatow once wrote. “Mel Brooks was the king.” Decades later, ...

The fourth annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival returns this week with an eight-film lineup that focuses on documentaries but also includes comedies, a silent gem and a lesser-seen classic from the ...

The opening scene in the first of four episodes of the PBS series Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History captures a truly wonderful event: a Passover Seder led by culinary genius Michael ...

People remember 20th-century industrialist Henry Ford as one of the most vicious and influential antisemites in American history, but few know the story of how he was sued for libel by a young Jewish ...