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...
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...
