By Alice Cuddy in Iskenderun, Turkey - BBC News On an indistinct mound of rubble in southern Turkey is an uncannily well-preserved window frame with a butterfly print curtain that…
In 1938, Harvard researchers embarked on a decades-long study to find out: What makes us happy in life? The researchers gathered health records from 724 participants from all over the…
ANDREW ROMANO A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that white Americans are just as likely to favor (40%) as to oppose (41%) a ban on teaching Advanced Placement courses in African American…
“The American way of life is not up for negotiation. Period.” These are the words of U.S. President George H. W. Bush ahead of the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio…
Toby Axelrod - February 9, 2023 3:46 pm BERLIN (JTA) — Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff made headlines late last month during a trip to Europe, where he met with other foreign…
Andrew Silow-Carroll - February 8, 2023 1:07 pm (New York Jewish Week) — A new book untangles one of the best known incidents involving Jews in the American Civil War —…
Orge Castellano - February 9, 2023 2:31 pm MADRID (JTA) — Archaeologists working in a town in southwestern Spain have excavated a 14th-century Sephardic synagogue, revealing a fully intact floor plan…
Black adults who were adopted by white families share their perspectives on identity, culture and a sense of belonging. Some of Lydia Berkey’s happiest childhood moments were spent in a…
After video footage of the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols stunned the nation, calls to revive the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act are growing louder. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) plans…
Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution annually into waterways, and that pollution disproportionately affects people of color, according to a new analysis of Environmental Protection Agency regulatory data. The pollution…