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...
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....
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...
