Deborah Dash Moore and Dory Fox, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published March 18, 2022
Take a look at this poster of a woman in military garb. Her uniform indicates her military service in World War II, but the text, surprisingly, is in Hebrew. In 1943, there was no State of Israel. The poster reads: “Serve in the WAAF with the men...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 18, 2022
In his 1998 best-seller, Tom Brokaw coined the phrase "The Greatest Generation" which created a well-deserved awareness, wonder, and appreciation of those Americans born in the 1920s. They were the Americans who, through their sacrifices, deprivation,...
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published March 15, 2022
Today, we tell the remarkable story of Helena Schonfeld, a St. Louisan who concealed her Jewish identity, had contact with Dr. Josef Mengele, lived in multiple concentration camps before being liberated. The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is...
Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University
• Published March 15, 2022
March 18, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the first bat mitzvah ceremony in the United States.
Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age...
NAAMA BARAK, Israel21c.org
• Published March 10, 2022
This year, the theme of International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias. Which is terrific news, as women everywhere still face discrimination and prejudice in matters big and small.
In hope for a gender-equal world, we’d like to take a moment to celebrate...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, ISRAELED.ORG
• Published March 10, 2022
March 10, 1970 — Law of Return’s Jewish Definition Is Amended
Israel’s 1950 Law of Return is amended to change the definition of “who is a Jew” after two high-profile cases involving a Jewish convert to Catholicism and an interfaith marriage....
(JTA) – When West Virginia lawmakers opened a discussion about proposed “critical race theory” legislation on Monday, it didn’t take long before topic of conversation turned to Jews.
West Virginia’s House of Delegates was debating legislation...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published February 28, 2022
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Tragic events now unfolding in Ukraine echo a history of Russian human rights offenses against Jews...
Samantha Long, Alma.com
• Published February 27, 2022
Never have I attended a family function where I did not fall victim to, as the phrase goes, “The Jewish Goodbye.”
I have been both the perpetrator and the victim of this practice, the prelude to a silent car ride home, a vehicle filled with empty...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published February 24, 2022
Feb. 24, 1942 — Struma Is Sunk by Soviet Sub
A Soviet submarine sinks the refugee transport SS Struma in the Black Sea in the belief that it is an enemy ship. Only one of the 769 Jewish refugees survives. The Struma, a converted cattle transport...
A 12-page U.S. State Department memorandum makes for depressing reading as it takes the president on a world tour that documents the resistance to admitting European refugees.
