Why didn’t the United States do more to help Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust? This question haunts the history of the United States and the Holocaust and lurks behind practically every storyline in the new film on the subject from Ken Burns, Lynn...
By Dovid Margolin, CHABAD.ORG
• Published September 11, 2022
On June 6, 1950, Maj. Gen. Mikhail Popereka, a deputy minister of the Ukrainian branch of the MGB Soviet secret police—the precursor to the KGB—drafted an 11-page memo on the status of the ongoing investigation into the case of the “Chassidim”...
By Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published September 11, 2022
Unlike his much-respected and deeply mourned mother, who died Sept. 8, King Charles III has shared a series of empathetic friendships with Jews. One reason might be easy to pinpoint. The late Queen was admired for her love of horses and dogs in addition...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Last month, at the Pan American Games in Medellin, Colombia, spectators, journalists and the event’s organizers lined up with anticipation along the side of a pool to watch a 400-meter medley. They were there to see Nora Tausz...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 7, 2022
Do Jewish tradition and scientific reasoning provide two different and sometimes contradictory sources of truth? It's a question that Jewish thinkers throughout the ages have strived to address. For the past year, St. Louis Jews have been invited to not...
Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Published August 31, 2022
The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi deportation of Jewish families from Germany to Auschwitz.
Although the Nazis deported hundreds of thousands of Jewish men and women, for many places where those tragic events happened,...
The German government has reportedly agreed to pay the families of the 11 victims €28 million, opening the way for them to attend an event in Germany marking the 50th anniversary of the attack.
The Reuben sandwich — the creamy, salty combination of meat, cheese, and sauerkraut that is a mainstay of diners and delis all around the United States — was created one night in a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, to satisfy a group of hungry Jewish poker...
Vera May Atkins, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honor (June 15 1908 – June 24, 2000), was a Romanian-born Jewish British intelligence officer. In Romania, she worked as a British spy getting very close to the...
Celery juice may be the all the rage right now as the detox drink of choice, (according to the Kardashians, at least), but Jews were imbibing their vegetables long before this modern-day craze.
Dr. Brown, who lived in the Lower East Side or Williamsburg...
