BY CALEB GUEDES-REED, JTA
• Published November 30, 2022
(JTA) — A plaza in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood has been named after Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust but spent the rest of his life as a social pariah.
“This small...
Shai Carmi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and David Reich, Harvard University
• Published November 30, 2022
About two-thirds of Jews today – or about 10 million people – are Ashkenazi, referring to a recent origin from Eastern and Central Europe. They reside mostly in the United States and Israel. Ashkenazi Jews carry a particularly high burden of disease-causing...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — For his 2021 book “How the Word Is Passed,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, poet and journalist Clint Smith explored the landscape of American memory — specifically how the history of slavery is explained,...
By Jaime Herndon, Kveller
• Published November 26, 2022
Ever since the High Holiday season, it feels like antisemitism is coming from all sides. Logging on to social media can be anxiety-producing. Repeatedly seeing images of antisemitic flyers and signs that are popping up all over our country is exhausting....
Bennett Schmidt, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 22, 2022
Is there anything more fun than peering into how the other half lives? My wife and I have found visiting historic homes and estates throughout the United States and abroad an ongoing amusement. We’ve toured dozens of historic hotspots, including...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 22, 2022
The world’s largest decentralized memorial commemorates the lives of people deported by the Nazis before and during the Holocaust. The Stolpersteine Project was conceived by German artist Gunther Demnig. It consists of 75,000 stolpersteine (stumbling...
Adam Kloppe, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 15, 2022
On November 20, 1945, some of the most important trials of the 20th century began in Nuremberg, Germany. Known as the Nuremberg Trials, the cases brought against 24 of the most prominent surviving Nazis captured the attention of the world as legal...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 15, 2022
Earlier this month, on the eve of the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a major Holocaust remembrance exhibit at Washington University came to an end. The “Lest We Forget” exhibit was a series of portraits of survivors photographed by the noted Italian-German...
Shuly Rubin Schwartz, JTA
• Published November 14, 2022
(JTA) — Like so many other American Jews from the New York area, I have been eagerly awaiting “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” the new exhibit on the American Jewish deli now on view at the New-York Historical Society. After all, the deli was...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 14, 2022
Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Holocaust Center (which became the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center In Memory of Gloria M. Goldstein in 1995 and is now the St. Louis...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 11, 2022
American Jews have a proud history of serving in the U.S. military dating back to the Revolutionary War. Jews fought in the trenches of France in World War I, on the beaches in the south Pacific, in Normandy, and across Europe. Jews served and fought...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published November 10, 2022
Nov. 10, 2004 — ‘Hatikvah’ Is Officially Declared National Anthem
The Knesset officially adopts the Zionist song “Hatikvah” (“The Hope”) as Israel’s national anthem more than half a century after the founding of the state. Although the...
