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,...

The last place I thought I'd find some interesting Jewish history was on my plate during a recent visit to Pumpernickels Delicatessen in Creve Coeur. As I perused the menu, I mentioned to my wife that I hadn't had a knish in years, and remembered how...

For more than 60 years, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington has been recording the Jewish story of the nation’s capital. Next year, that story will be available for all to peruse in the new Capital Jewish Museum — a Washington...

(JTA) — Police in Germany arrested a 96-year-old suspected war criminal after she failed to show up for the first day of her trial. The woman, Irmgard Furchner, was indicted in February for complicity in the murders of 10,000 people at Stutthof,...

Every week, one section of the Torah, known as the Torah portion or "Parsha" is designated as a focus of Jewish study and is read aloud in synagogue that Shabbat. The first mention of a scheduled Torah-reading cycle appears in the Bible, in Deuteronomy,...

Back in January of 1963, in Flensburg, West Germany, a former SS leader, Martin Fellenz, was on trial for the mass murder of Jews during World War II in Russia and Poland. On that day, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the jury was told about...

Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...

Anne Frank trending on Twitter is rarely a good thing. From January to May this year, Black Hammer, which calls itself a “revolutionary organization” working for “all colonized people worldwide,” tweeted monthly statements condemning the most...

"A Look at the Jewish Year", a new series from the National Library of Israel and the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, includes three videos highlighting core texts and concepts surrounding the holidays in the Jewish month of Tishrei, as well as source...

The Sievers Studio Collection is one of the largest studio collections at the Missouri Historical Society, containing 253 linear feet of photographic negatives, prints, and business records dating from the 1910s through the 1980s. Sievers Studio was...