Fifty years ago, a group of young Jewish women piled into two cars and drove to upstate New York to crash the annual meeting of the all-male Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement. They called themselves Ezrat Nashim and they had a set of demands...
This year’s Holocaust commemoration, Yom HaShoah 2022: Faith & Healing, will be presented on Wednesday, April 27 at 7 pm. As in past years, this program will honor the victims, remember the survivors, and educate the community about the history...
It’s no secret that Israel is brimming with amazing Jewish archeological finds, ranging from huge palaces to marble toilets.
While some of the discoveries are the result of backbreaking archeological digs, many others were simply stumbled upon...
DAVID A.M. WILENSKY, J. Weekly
• Published March 30, 2022
Over the centuries, the Passover seder — and reading from its guidebook, the haggadah — has proven to be among the Jewish people’s most malleable rituals. In the hands of scholars, artists, writers and every kind of Jew in between, the haggadah...
(JTA) — Princeton University spent months planning an exhibit of 19th-century American Jewish art before cancelling the show because two of its featured artists had supported the Confederacy.
The cancellation has drawn criticism from the exhibit’s...
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Oskar Jakob a St. Louisan who survived five camps before being liberated by the British. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing us to republish portions of their Oral Histories Project, as a...
(New York Jewish Week) — Every Passover for the last 75 years, Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, has worn a vibrant blue hand-knit sweater to the first seder, which she hosts in her Upper West Side apartment building.
The...
Faygie Levy Holt, Chabad.org
• Published March 27, 2022
(Chabad.org) -- Fourth-grader Avery McMullen of Haverford, Pa., loves to learn, and says language arts is her favorite subject. But it was her knowledge of Judaism that propelled her to the head of the class in an international Jewish competition for...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published March 27, 2022
If state-subsidized daycare is still a distant dream in most countries, it was a truly radical idea in the 1930s, when few mothers worked outside the home.
Yet that was when this social service was pioneered in Palestine. Jewish women needed safe and...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published March 25, 2022
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April 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, Israeled.org
• Published March 24, 2022
March 24, 1993 — Weizman Is Elected President
Ezer Weizman, a nephew of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, is elected the nation’s seventh president on a 66-53 vote in the Knesset. A native of Tel Aviv, Weizman is one of the founders of...
.... And the award for best title of a Jewish podcast goes to.... "Can We Talk?" from the Jewish Women's Archive.
Seriously, what a great name for this conversational podcast, and it's time it gets the spotlight it deserves. The Jewish Women's Archive...
