Mikall Venso, Military & Firearms Curator
• Published January 23, 2023
Howard Mechanic was a young, Jewish Washington University college student (1966-1970) from Cleveland, Ohio. The following is published in partnership with the Missouri Historical Society.
Among the compelling experiences of the Vietnam War, few St....
By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
• Published January 23, 2023
(JNS) In recognition of this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem is set to unveil on Thursday an installation at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. It’s a book filled with the names of 4.8 million murder victims....
Each year on January 27, the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet soldiers. This year, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is planning a weekend-long...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published January 19, 2023
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When you call your film The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, you’re announcing a judgment less measured...
Andrew Silverstein, The Forward
• Published January 17, 2023
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When it comes to “bagels and lox,” the cream cheese is essential but goes without...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Rudolf Oppenheim a St. Louisan whose family in 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht and his father’s release from a concentration camp, fled Germany. Because there were few countries that permitted Jews...
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...
