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Jewish American Heritage Month

In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month in May, check out these articles and videos spotlighting the positive contributions of Jewish Americans across industries.

Get to know Jewish Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman

At the 2012 Olympics, Raisman became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the floor competition for her performance to “Hava Nagila.”

The forgotten history of Jewish Harlem

At the beginning of the 20th century, Harlem’s Jewish community was the third-largest in the world, just behind Warsaw, Poland, and the Lower East Side.

Everything we know about Jonah Hill’s Jewish identity

Hill remembers his bar mitzvah as “magical” and proudly identifies as a “Surf Jew.”

The Jews of the Wild West

Their stories embody traits of perseverance, grit, and the determination to maintain one’s identity in a strange land.
Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Shad Polier at an American Jewish Congress fundraising event in 1963. (Photo via American Jewish Historical Society)

9 things you need to know about the Black-Jewish relationship in America

“The great challenge is for voices of compassion and mutual respect to rise above the prevailing din of acrimony, misunderstanding and distrust.”

Barbara Walters’ Jewish identity

“To my great surprise, Israel overwhelmed me and aroused feelings I never knew I had. I couldn’t get over the beauty of the land.”

A Jewish American tale

Like so many immigrant groups in the past and the present, Jews fought for decades to be included in what it means to be American.

All the Jewish things you want to know about Ben Platt

Louis Brandeis: Can Americans be patriots and Zionists?

The history of Jewish life in America

Jews have lived in the United States since 1654 — before the states were even united — when 23 Sephardic settlers fled to New Amsterdam.

Mila Kunis is proud to be Jewish and Ukrainian

“My grandparents were in the Holocaust (they survived, but most of other relatives weren’t as lucky), and I’m very much part of that story,” she said.

Madeleine Albright’s secret Jewish heritage 

It was only at almost 75 years-old that Albright had the “time and courage” to explore her Jewish heritage.

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