April 21, 1947 — 2 Jewish Militants Kill Themselves Moshe Barazani, 20, of Lehi (the Stern Gang) and Meir Feinstein, 19, of the Irgun kill themselves with a grenade smuggled into their prison in Jerusalem to prevent the British from hanging them...

Fifty years ago, Rabbi Sally Priesand made history by becoming the first woman rabbi in America. In this episode of the podcast Can We Talk?, women rabbis from three Jewish denominations reflect on the milestone. We speak with Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses,...

Celebrating and honoring the massive contribution of Jews in Hollywood is at the heart of FilmShul, one of the more unique offerings for the Jewish community to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and it's is finding audiences across the country. What...

(Israel Hayom via JNS) -- Decades after they were lost, the tefillin (phylacteries) of Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947 after being caught during a raid on the Ramat Gan police station, are going on display in a new exhibition...

Nine PBS is re-airing an important documentary on Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas City after World War II. Two of them later moved to St. Louis. “All These Delicate Sorrows,” which premiered last June will reair Sunday, April 24 at 4...

St. Louis author and poet Jason Sommer's father, Jay, is 98 years old and losing his memory. More than 70 years after arriving in New York from World War II-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the...

(JTA) — Jewish actor Liev Schreiber will play Anne Frank’s father Otto in a new Disney+ limited series, the latest dramatization of the Frank family’s harrowing life in hiding from the Nazis. The eight-episode miniseries, “A Small Light,”...

In the 1930s, there were 5,000 delis in New York City. By way of comparison, Starbucks, which seems to be on every street corner, has 241 outlets in New York. And those delis were much more than just places to get coffee or a pastrami. “I’ll...

A Republican state senator in Tennessee cited Adolf Hitler in a legislative session Wednesday as an example of somebody who overcame poverty and achieved fame. Arguing in favor of a bill that targets unhoused people camping on public property,...

For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal, when families tell the biblical Exodus story of God delivering the ancient Israelites from slavery...

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum joins Holocaust museums across the world to release a joint statement condemning Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In response to the reports of mass graves and acts of brutality against Ukrainian citizens...