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...
By Charles Klotzer, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2022
My Bar Mizvah in Berlin, Germany, was scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 1938. However, the night of November 9 lasting through November 10, Nazis launched a night and day of terror attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria.
The Nazi’s attacks...
Chen Malul, In partnership witht the National Library of Israel
• Published November 3, 2022
Some of us find it hard to believe that in Talmudic times women and men prayed together in the synagogue. When did a separate gallery for women become mandatory in Orthodox synagogues, and how did the separation of men and women in the prayer service come about?
By Frances Levine, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2022
I grew up in Bridgeport and Fairfield, Conn. surrounded by father’s family — the Levines. My grandmother Anna and my grandfather Isaac Levine lived across the street from my elementary school, and right next to the candy store. I saw them nearly...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 1, 2022
Earlier this year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum conferred its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, on the Ritchie Boys, a little-known special World War II U.S. military intelligence unit that included many Jewish refugees from Nazism...
BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 1, 2022
Among the myriad Holocaust narratives we tell, which almost always end in tragedy, the fate of the passengers on the MS St. Louis exerts a particular hold on our imagination.
Of course, it does. The juxtaposition of strong, conflicting emotions —...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 1, 2022
Lilo Fauman was a Holocaust survivor, a proud grandmother, a talented writer and an extrovert. Born in 1923 in Munich, Germany, Fauman and her family narrowly escaped the Nazis during Kristallnacht and arrived in the United States in February 1939.
Fauman...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 31, 2022
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum displays many timeless, sobering artifacts. Those visual reminders of the Holocaust provide visitors with a sense of history and offer a glimpse into Europe during the early 1940s. The museum has been collecting...
(JTA) — The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas’ 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would endorse.
Johnny Teague, an evangelical pastor and business owner who won the...
(JTA) – Forty-five percent of American adults believe the United States should be a “Christian nation,” according to the results of a new survey published Thursday by the Pew Research Center — the latest data point finding modern support for Christian...
