Hanan Greenwood, JNS
• Published February 14, 2022
(Israel Hayom via JNS) The fight against the auctioning of Nazi artifacts took another turn over the weekend, as popular auction website “Bidspirit” announced a total ban on the sale of Nazi items. Any auction houses violating the ban will be removed...
Today, February 14th is one day of the year that is directly linked to love, I decided to research the phenomenon of love to see what modern science has to say about it.
Surprisingly, scientists have only relatively recently begun to research the...
Before you take your next bite of some delicious chocolate, you may want to check out this book from Green Bean Books. In Babka, Boulou & Blintzes, British author Michael Leventhal explores the history of chocolate in Jewish food and culture. If you’re...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published February 11, 2022
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Her British Jewish subjects are cheering the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II this year,...
Stephanie Sylverne, Kveller
• Published February 10, 2022
Yesterday, Prince Charles will unveil a bronze statue of Licoricia of Winchester, one of the most influential women in medieval England, near her home in the town’s 13th century Jewish quarter. Renowned artist Ian Rank-Broadley modeled the figures...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 10, 2022
Hopefully soon, we'll all be able to pack our bags and fly off to wherever in the world we care to go. But, for now, COVID has changed the way we travel, and experiencing and exploring the world's Jewish sites is best done virtually.
Virtual travel...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, ISRAELED.ORG
• Published February 10, 2022
Feb. 10, 1913 — Air Force Builder Charles Winters Is Born
Charles Winters, who helps Israel build its first air force, is born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Winters, who is not Jewish, works as a government purchasing agent during World War II and runs...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 8, 2022
Back by popular demand, St. Louis Jewish Light Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Bob Cohn is returning for his every-other-month meeting of "On the Record with Bob Cohn."
The meeting will take place this Friday, February 11 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Bob will...
Menachem Posner, Chabad.org/News
• Published February 7, 2022
(Chabad.org) Viewers of Chabad.org/Video and consumers of the website’s in-depth essays have long known and enjoyed the prolific scholarly output of Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Downtown Brooklyn and rabbi of Congregation...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 6, 2022
Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745-1816) was the first American-born spiritual leader of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, founded in 1654, and the first Jewish congregation to be established in North America.
Seixas received...
Mark I. Pinsky, The Forward
• Published February 6, 2022
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Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who died Jan. 28, at 95, was a modest, unprepossessing man.
Whatever...
(JNS) The European Jewish Congress is asking the U.S-based publishing house HarperCollins to pull a book they said contains an “incendiary claim” that a Jewish notary told the Nazis where Anne Frank and her family were hiding during the Holocaust.
“In...
