Jews fled the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil and arrived in New Amsterdam, which became New York 10 years later. Jews have ...

New York City’s first-ever month-long festival celebrating Sephardic Jewish cultural achievements opens on Thursday.

During the 13 graduations Volusia and Flagler counties just held, principals and students turned to history, films and ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• “Give me your tired, your poor, / your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / the wretched ...

It’s a list of 500 communities friendly to immigrants. Hooray! What a great list to be on. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," as the poem on the pedestal of ...

What is the meaning of diversity, equity and inclusion? Diversity is, in truth, the foundation on which America was built. Our ancestors were an exceptional gathering of people escaping or expelled ...

Reports had already confirmed that Donald Trump’s new administration would make Chicago “ground zero” for an intense national ...

As a retired military lifer, he gets a decent government pension. For the first five years of living in China, that income is not taxed. After five years, he’ll qualify for what amounts to a permanent ...

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...” — from “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed upon the Statue of ...

I’m the son of an Icelandic father and a Swiss mother. That would mean I’m 50/50. I am a direct descendant of immigrant families to the United States from 1900 to 1920. We appear as ...

The welcome at Ellis Island, New York, has for over 100 years stated, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses ...

American Dirt sat unread on my shelf for the better part of two years, and every couple of months, I’d pick it up and turn it ...