jewish americans

Two Jewish boys living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn struggle through the joys and problems of growing up.

Dalya Cohen-Mor, the first Israeli-born Jewish American to be sent as a Peace Corps volunteer to a closed Arab society, was forced to navigate uncharted territory and redefine her values and attitudes when she was assigned to the predominantly Palestinian country of Jordan. She was instructed to conceal her Jewish identity, use an alias, and pretend she was Christian so that her safety and efficacy as a Peace Corps volunteer was not compromised. She lived in the household of a Bedouin host family and taught English at a girls elementary school in a village. After three months of work she was accused of being involved in intelligence activities and sent home. Her time in the Peace Corps showed her what contemporary life in Jordan was like, and the complexities of a closed Arab society. Today Dalya Cohen-Mor lives in the United States and is a lecturer, researcher, and writer, and a scholar of Arab culture and society. She earned her PhD from Georgetown University.

A photographic project of the American Jewish community of nearly six million, creating a composite portrait that records its traditions, beliefs, and achievements.

A beautiful and gutsy lawyer, Jennie is on the brink of marriage and is trying the most important case of her career. Then a shattering secret from her past threatens to destroy her world.

A young Jewish girl and her family adjust to a new neighborhood and new friends at a time when the radio is telling of Hitler's rise to power in Europe.

A history of the Jewish neighborhood in Syracuse, New York, from the 1830s to the mid-1960s.

In 1944, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.

Increasingly aware of the differences between her family, who are nonobservant Jews, and their Catholic neighbors, 10-year-old Gerry Flam begins to investigate her heritage.