The director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East replies to Ruth Wisse.

Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point” touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from Ellis Island to Galveston. Growing up in London, almost ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...

The cornerstone of the Jacob H. Schiff Centre, Valentine Avenue near F6rdham Road, the Bronx, was laid by Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus. When samuel Untermyer, the principal speaker, called “the ...

California’s Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla have revived one of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s worst ideas: a ban on ...

Growing up in London, almost everything Rachel Cockerell knew about the British Jewish writer Israel Zangwill could be summed up in three words: “The Melting Pot.” The title of Zangwill’s ...