Kowtowing to Louis Farrakhan.

An antidote to current debates.

It now has a small but flourishing Jewish community.

And fought the slave trade.

The death of God is greatly exaggerated.

The admonition against oppressing the stranger, which opens this week’s Torah portion, is a far from obvious response to the Israelites’ experience of enslavement in Egypt.

The film Twelve Years a Slave uncritically accepts its protagonist’s assertion that the Bible legitimized the enslavement of African Americans. The truth is more. . .

The Nation of Islam is still propagating the canard that Jews dominated the slave trade, but its view has lost traction in the African-American community.

By serving in the military and in many other ways, American Jews had an extraordinary opportunity to play out their lives as individuals, to the. . .