By Baila Brackman, Chabad.org/news
• Published January 5, 2023
Time is vitally important, especially when it comes to helping someone in a critical situation.
Living on the rough-and-tumble South Side of Chicago, it had been decades since Jakob had been in contact with organized Jewish community life, which is...
Odem Ashur, In partnership with the National Library of Israel
• Published January 3, 2023
It was around the time of the First World War. The waning Ottoman Empire still ruled over the Land of Israel, but the British were already waiting in the wings in Egypt. In this article, we will discuss the British officer and archaeologist whose name...
(JTA) — Israel’s National Library accepted 22 volumes of archives from the Irish Jewish Family History Database, which tracks over three centuries of Jewish life in Ireland.
The database, which was compiled by Stuart Rosenblatt, president of the...
Center for Israel Education, israeled.org
• Published December 15, 2022
Dec. 15, 1999 — U.S. Fund Buys Stake in Israeli Water
San Francisco-based venture fund Aqua International Partners buys a 25% stake in Israeli bottled water company Mayanot Eden (Eden Springs) for $47.5 million, financing the company’s expansion...
BY RACHAEL TURKIENICZ, My Jewish Learning
• Published December 13, 2022
The First and Second Books of Maccabees contain the most detailed accounts of the battles of Judah Maccabee and his brothers for the liberation of Judea from foreign domination. These books include within them the earliest references to the story of...
(JNS) Mossad Director David Barnea on Monday publicly revealed for the first time the last telegram the intelligence agency received from spy Eli Cohen prior to his capture in Syria.
The telegram, which was revealed during the dedication of the Eli...
KultureCity has partnered with the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum to make the Museum and all of the programs and events that the venue hosts to be sensory inclusive. This new initiative will promote an accommodating and positive experience...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 5, 2022
The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is four months away, but we've just learned of one special film that will be among those showcased. "The Levys of Monticello" is a documentary film by Steven Pressman, who has previously directed two Holocaust-related...
Miriam Friedman Morris, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published December 1, 2022
This story is being published in partnership with the National Library of Israel. All photos courtesy of Yad Vashem Art Museum, Beit Theresienstadt, and the Jewish Museum in Prague.
I was born in Israel in 1950, and named after my father’s first...
The latke is one of those Jewish foods that feels steeped in tradition as if it’s been made the same way since the days of the Maccabees.
But in a revelatory article, Atlantic senior editor Yoni Appelbaum explained that the latke as we know it —...
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...
