Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 10, 2023
Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials had died. According to St. John’s University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials, Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida.
"I am deeply...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 4, 2023
Bram Hoffman is knee-deep in books. He is in a dimly lit back room at Dunaway Books, one of the largest independent bookstores in St. Louis located at 3111 S. Grand Ave. Stacks upon stacks of cardboard boxes surround his small workstation. The boxes...
(JNS) The Torah reserves some of its most elegant poetry for nautical phenomena amid the Red Sea parting. Exodus 15 describes the “heart of the sea” and Divine nostrils blowing “majestic” waters. Immediately after Miriam’s song celebrating the...
Kerri Steinberg, Otis College of Art and Design
• Published April 3, 2023
For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal when families tell the biblical Exodus story of God delivering the ancient Israelites from slavery in...
By Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published April 2, 2023
Evangelical support for Trump has been strong since he was elected in 2016; despite the former president’s multiple divorces, adultery and profanity, many have stood behind him, justifying their support through comparisons to biblical figures — particularly...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published April 2, 2023
(JTA) — “What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.” That’s known as Hansen’s Law, named for the historian Marcus Lee Hansen, who observed that while the children of immigrants tend to run away from their ethnicity in order...
By ADAM REINHERZ, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published March 31, 2023
This story was originally published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle and is republished here with full permission.
Private Joseph A. Joel noticed on his calendar that Passover was coming. He and 20 fellow Jewish soldiers requested relief from...
Center for Israel Education, israeled.org
• Published March 23, 2023
March 23, 1915 — Zion Mule Corps Is Created
A Jewish unit of the British army is formed in Alexandria, Egypt, with about 500 volunteers, including many expelled from Palestine because of the Ottoman Empire’s fear of the Jewish population. The idea...
During an interview in 2016 with author Dawn Lerman about her new book “My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes,” we got to talking about her maternal grandmother who Lerman would spend Friday nights with as a child. Each Shabbat...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 22, 2023
You do not need to be a Talmudic scholar to wonder "what does it mean to be Jewish in 2023?" You just need to have a bit of curiosity and then know where to go to find some answers. One good way to learn more about being Jewish is to take a Melton course.
Melton...
(JTA) – Israel Mizrahi joined dozens of fellow connoisseurs of rare Jewish books last December to watch the livestream of Genazym, the hottest auction house in the market. A bookdealer by trade, Mizrahi was also on the phone being paid to advise a wealthy...
This year’s Holocaust commemoration, Yom HaShoah 2023: Voices of Resistance, will be presented at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 16 at United Hebrew Congregation. As in past years, this program will honor the victims, remember the survivors, and educate...
