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...
Center for Israel Education
• Published August 18, 2022
Aug. 18, 2000 — Archaeologist Claire Epstein Dies
Archaeologist Claire Epstein, a London native who participated in many surveys and excavations in Israel, including discovering the culture of the Chalcolithic Period (4500 to 3300 B.C.E.) in the Golan,...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 18, 2022
“My Name Is Sara” is a searing drama based on the true story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl who survived in Nazi-occupied Ukraine by posing as Ukrainian Orthodox Christian while living with a family of farmers who were unaware of her true identity....
(JTA) – A school district in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, has ordered its librarians to remove an illustrated adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” from their shelves and digital libraries, along with the Bible and dozens of other books that were...
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of committing “Holocausts” at a press conference after meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, and Scholz’s muted initial response is spurring criticism.
Abbas...
