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Is the golden age of Jews in America ending? - opinion

As America marks 250 years, Jews celebrate a remarkable partnership while confronting new questions about its future

Thousands of Jewish and Israeli Americans participate in the annual Israel Day Parade, the world’s largest pro-Israel parade, on May 31, in New York City. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who did not attend the march, is the first New York mayor not to do so.Premium
THE STATUE of Liberty Hanukkah Lamp by Manfred Anson on display at the Statue of Liberty Museum, 2019.

Exhibits, marches, celebrations: How American Jewish orgs are marking 250 years of independence

Activists make protest signs inside a pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University in Washington, DC, US, May 2, 2024.

GW University investigates possible chemical attack on student-led Israel festival

Declaration of Independence of the United States. New Canaan, 1950. Featuring George Washington.

Looking back at George Washington’s 1790 letter, the root of American religious freedom


As a mixed-race Jew who presents white. Jessica Krug’s story eye-opening

I have gone through my life as a mixed-race person often wondering if I was Jewish enough or Mexican enough.

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University professor who faked an Afro-Latina identity resigns

“We hope that with this update our community can begin to heal and move forward.”

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GWU Professor faking Afro identity won't teach fall semester

The university made the announcement in a statement Friday, a day after Krug confessed her decades-long deception in a Medium post.

People await a formation of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds to fly over the National Mall as a collaborative salute to first responders and other essential personnel during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Washington, U.S., May 2, 2020.

White Jewish professor investigated for pretending to be Black

The situation came to light after the publication of a blog post attributed to professor Jessica Krug, in which the white author confesses to falsely claiming Black Caribbean heritage.

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After Charlottesville, Trump violated Washington’s promise to US Jews

Shortly after George Washington became America’s first president, he undertook to reassure the young nation’s religious minorities that their rights would be safeguarded under this new republic.

US President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news briefing at the White House in Washington, US, July 23, 2020

The American Revolution's fight for religious freedom

The water-stained diary pages recovered from the body of pastor Rev. Moses Allen showed the religious persecution inflicted by the British, faced by a Jewish colonel in the Continental Army.

The Battle of Long Island in the US Revolutionary War.

GWU students call for university to adopt antisemitic acts definition

In the letter, students said there are several forms of antisemitism on campus

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Washington Monument to reopen after 8 years of earthquake repairs

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the eastern seaboard of the United States, causing cracks and other damage to the 555-foot marble and granite monument.

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Revisiting history

Brad Meltzer pens his first nonfiction work, covering the secret plot to kill George Washington.

A 1784 painting by Charles Willson Peale titled ‘George Washington at the Battle of Princeton.’

Fight over oldest U.S. synagogue heads to the Supreme Court

It is the latest development in a years-long property dispute between Jeshuat Israel and Shearith Israel, the nation’s oldest congregation.

Touro Synagogue, Newport Rhode Island, Interior