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Last May, the Anti-Defamation League made the start­ling pronouncement that one-quarter of the world’s population is anti-Semitic. The source for that charge was the ADL Global 100: An Index...

In his 1782 book Letters from an American Farmer, John de Crèvecœur asked the most famous and important question in Americanhistory: “What then is the American, this new man?”...

The institutions of Conservative Judaism—its synagogues, its summer camps, its youth organizations, its sisterhoods and men’s organizations, its seminaries, its rabbinate—will live on. Conservative Judaism as a movement, defined...

Jews have been counting themselves since the time of Moses. The Bible provided an exact figure of the number of adult male Jews who left Egypt, and while traveling...

Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties by stuart svonkin columbia university press, 364 pages, $37 The political behavior of American Jews has long been...

In her 1991 autobiography, Deborah, Golda, and Me , Letty Cottin Pogrebin argued that black-Jewish relationships rested on a common history of oppression. “Both blacks and Jews have known...

A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America by jack wertheimer basic books, 267 pages, $25 The slogan of the United Jewish Appeal, the most successful of all of America’s...

The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence harmon free press, 370 pages, $24.95 In November 1969, Hillel Levine, a...