Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samuel Gruenberg speaks at the first congress of the Welt-Verband Shomre Shabbos in Berlin in 1930 - Hulton Archive In the preface ...

Anat Shenker-Osorio breaks down Pres. Biden’s State of the Union address. Rachel Cockerell’s new book, “Melting Point,” tells the story of Jews from Russia seeking refuge in Texas in the early 19th ...

I was grateful to read Kathryn Schulz’s enthusiastic review of Rachel Cockerell’s book “Melting Point,” which traces an early-twentieth-century effort to resettle Jewish immigrants in Texas (Books, ...

Galveston itself was not intended to be their final stop. Rather, the facilitators of this migration, among them Jacob Schiff, a prominent New York financier, hoped that the newcomers would fan out ...

One does not expect to stumble across news about the Galveston Movement in the august pages of The New Yorker magazine. Discussion of this 20th-century resettlement campaign — a breakaway effort that ...