Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published July 31, 2023
Before he became the father of Jewish comedian Paul Reubens, AKA Pee-Wee Herman, Milton Rubenfeld was a top fighter pilot who first served in the Royal Air Force, and then the U.S. Army Air Force, during World War II.
After the war, he returned...
Center for Israel Education
• Published July 20, 2023
July 20, 1949 — Syria, Israel Sign Armistice
Israel signs an armistice with Syria, the last of four Arab nations to sign such agreements at the end of the War of Independence. Israel signed agreements with Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan before opening negotiations...
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...
Mark Zimmerman, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 19, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, died last week at the age of 92. Ellsberg’s parents were of Russian Jewish descent, but they had embraced Christian Science and raised him in that...
(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...
Center for Israel Education
• Published June 16, 2023
June 15, 1970 — Refuseniks Are Arrested Before Stealing Plane
A plot to steal a commercial aircraft to escape the Soviet Union is foiled when 12 dissidents are arrested at Leningrad’s Smolnoye Airport just before boarding the plane. Four others are...
"Generations," the first Jewish-themed genealogy television series produced by the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, JewishGen, and JLTV, will launch in Fall 2023. The premiere episode has begun filming, and will...
(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,...
