(JNS) When a young man wanted to go study with a great rabbi in Poland-Lithuania, his father balked since there was no money for a train and thieves would surely accost the boy as he walked. Better to stay home and read the rabbi’s books, the father...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 8, 2023
What the Holocaust means to a person can change after a visit to the Jewish Ghetto of Lodz in Poland or crossing under the "Arbeit macht frei" sign at the main gate of the Auschwitz I-Main Camp. One's understanding of what Jewish life was like in Krakow...
Roseanne Barr, the controversial Jewish comedian and former star of the working-class family sitcom Roseanne, denied the Holocaust and espoused other conspiracy theories on a recent episode of the podcast “This Past Weekend” hosted by comedian...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 19, 2023
More than a century before the first emails and texts were sent electronically, postcards were a very popular way of communicating. The first postcards became available with the advancement of photography, and the years between 1890 and 1915 are considered...
Sharon Berry, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 19, 2023
My friend Katya was recently helping Rebekah organize her home. As part of her process, Katya asks about various objects and how people feel when they are in their presence. She then brings to their attention how objects can affect their lives. Upon...
(JTA) — One spring morning in 1934, two little girls followed their mothers to a corner grocery store in Amsterdam. The mothers, hearing each other speak German to their daughters, discovered they were both Jewish refugees who had recently fled Nazi...
(JTA) – Conditions didn’t seem favorable in early May as Stuart Eizenstat entered annual negotiations with the German government over reparations for the estimated 240,000 remaining Holocaust survivors around the world.
Eizenstat had served as...
(JTA) – Among the many books that conservative parents have recently asked their children’s schools to remove is a lushly illustrated version of the most famous Holocaust diary.
The graphic adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, published in English...
(JTA) — Toronto is home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities, nearly half of the 335,000 Jews in Canada. But until last week, the city did not have a dedicated Holocaust museum.
The Toronto Holocaust Museum opened its doors on Friday,...
Today is the 94th birthday of Anne Frank, as well as the anniversary of the first post in her diary in which she famously wrote, “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will...
From “Poker Face” to “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning,” Peacock TV has been bringing us a lot of excellent TV, and in 2024, it is taking on a newly popular TV trend: the limited Holocaust series.
Next year, along with Sky TV, Peacock...
By Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
• Published May 15, 2023
A New York City auction house plans to sell a number of Holocaust-related items Saturday. A can of Zyklon B, the poison gas used to kills Jews and other concentration camp inmates, is among the items listed for sale. The lot also includes a patch...
