To the antisemite, the Jew is seen not as a person but as a symbol, which is why appeals made to reason and to the evidence of history have fallen on barren ground. We all embrace symbols.

It’s a sacred symbol,” said T.K. Nakagaki, president of the HEIWA Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, during the zoom conference Monday night, which was co-sponsored by Jewish Community ...

Even before the Nazis, the yellow badge was a symbol of Jewish oppression.Jews were forced to wear them as long ago as 1,200 years before Nazi Germany.WGN-TV atoned for its sin soon after.

Or the Jewish environmental activist who places a clay hamsa along the shore of San Francisco Bay as an “offering to the water.” I prefer to think of the hamsa as a wonderfully ecumenical symbol.

For instance, 41 percent of Jews polled said they avoid displaying mezuzahs and other religious symbols—up from 37 percent in late 2019—and 45 percent of parents ask their children not to tell ...

Known as the Festival of Lights, the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah celebrates the rise of the Jewish people against Greek-Syrian oppressors more than 2,000 years ago. As the island's Jewish ...

Israel Jerusalem News & Views Archaeology History Rare 1,700-years-Old Oil Candle Bearing Jewish Symbols Unearthed in Jerusalem.