Lila Berman wins the 2021 Organization of American Historians’ prestigious Ellis W. Hawley Prize for her book The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of ...
This past year has seen race and racial inequality return as hot topics of national debate and contention. The problems currently receiving heightened attention are not new, b...
Welcome to the Feinstein Center Blog!
Temple University's Feinstein Center for American Jewish History works to inspire curiosity and interest in American Jewish History. I'm ...
By: Nick Santangelo
There were always whispers in Hollywood. The industry knew Harvey Weinstein was acting inappropriately with women. The whispers reached D.C. too: both Hill...
A few weeks ago, leaders from across the Jewish professional world in Philadelphia gathered at Temple University's Feinstein Center for American Jewish History to participate ...
By: Nick Santangelo
Eli Valley kicked things off on an uplifting note: "We're here to talk about self-hatred. Real self-hatred."
OK, so it was more than a little bit dark, but...
By: Nick Santangelo
In 2018, it's more socially acceptable than ever before to self-identify as a feminist. But while doing so emits cheers or showings of support from many co...
In the late 1960s, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia (JCRC) saw it a priority to take a public stance regarding gun control legislation. While cas...
By: Ronit Treatman
Did you know that eating a lunch of eggplants, chickpeas, and a green salad could get you burned at the stake during the Middle Ages? This information was...
Radiant Others: A Klezmer Music Podcast, is a new creation from internationally renowned klezmer trombonist Dan Blacksberg. In each episode, Blacksberg sits down for an in-dep...
On Friday, September 15, Temple University students gathered for a teach-in about Charlottesville and white supremacy. Convened through Professor Ralph Young's Dissent in Amer...
By: Margery Sly
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia (JCRC) was established by B'nai B'rith in January 1939 but was originally known as the Philadelp...
As a perpetual minority through two millennia of dispersion, Jews know a little something about dissent. They have not only differed from the majority religion but also someti...
By: Margery Sly
On March 14, 1939, Detective Sergeant Jacob H. Gomborow assigned six detectives from the Philadelphia Bureau of Police's radical squad to attend a meeting orga...
