HANAN GREENWOOD AND YORI YALON, JNS
• Published November 2, 2021
The “extremely rare” stamps are expected to sell for $30,000-$40,000, says Tzolman’s Auction • European Jewish Association chairman appeals to Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to halt the “despicable sale.”
Jordan Palmer and AVISHAY ARTSY
• Published October 31, 2021
In 1936 Canadian Nickel was needed for lining guns, particularly if you wanted to invade Poland and France, but at the time it was near impossible to get on the market. There was a de-facto boycott to Germany.
That was when a New York Jewish hustler...
Gematria is a numerological system by which Hebrew letters correspond to numbers. This system, developed by practitioners of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), derived from Greek influence and became a tool for interpreting biblical texts.
In gematria,...
The award-winning English film and television actress Helena Bonham Carter probably could have gone on to a career in diplomacy had acting not so caught her fancy. She certainly had the family legacy: Her grandfather was Eduardo Propper de Callejon,...
The following story is part of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. It was told by Toby Cymber Gutterman in memory of her beloved husband, Murry Cymber. Murray passed away in 1973 and didn’t live to do it himself,...
In 1897, a 16-year-old Jewish orphan from Lithuania named Lena Himmelstein arrived in New York City and found work in a sweatshop for $1 a week. After her first husband, David Bryant, died at a young age, Lena supported herself and her son by making...
Noga Tarnopolsky, Forward
• Published October 7, 2021
Babi Yar may be the world’s deepest whodunit: Who killed some 34,000 Jews in just 48 hours on September 29 and 30, 1941, in this unexceptional park 15 minutes from downtown Kyiv?
And who proceeded to murder a total of 100,000 people in this leafy...
Benjamin Ivry, Forward
• Published October 7, 2021
Jan Brokken’s “The Just” recounts how in wartime Lithuania, Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk and Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara saved thousands of lives by issuing permits admitting Jewish refugees to the Dutch colony of Curaçao by way of Japan....
I'm guessing that many of you who are parents, remember how tough it was to get your children to do those little hygenic things we humans do, such as brush our teeth, shower, cut our nails. There's a lot more of course, but let's just focus on that...
MADRID (JTA) — In an unprecedented effort to find their relatives and raise awareness about their stories, Spanish authorities are releasing a list of the Hungarian Jews protected from the Nazis by a diplomat nicknamed the “Spanish Schindler.”
Ángel...
The Alheira is a beautiful thing. A type of Portuguese sausage known for garlic and breadcrumbs, the meat link is so beloved in Portugal that it was voted one of the nation’s seven gastronomic wonders in a 2011 vote. Oh, and it was invented by Jews...
The story of the men of X Troop, the real "Inglorious Basterds," is being told in a new book, and the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum has created a special virtual event, with the book's author on October 14.
After years of extensive research,...
