We must do better. At the Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College, we connect and nurture Jewish communities located outside of major metropolitan areas. We strengthen, equip, and connect ...

I’m not the only Jew who lives in a small town. According to one study, Jews who live in communities with 5,000 Jews or fewer comprise 4.4% of the country’s Jewish population.

As small-town Jewish communities across America continue to contract, preserving their histories becomes not just an act of remembrance, but also an essential part of understanding the broader ...

A Jewish historian writing in April 1945, shortly before Germany surrendered, said only 33 of the town's residents were still alive by the end of 1944. By then, the town had returned to Soviet ...