This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. September 5, director Tim Fehlbaum’s gripping control room thriller about the 1972 massacre at the Munich Olympics...

Nov. 28, 1961 — Operation Yachin Begins for Moroccan Jews After a two-year ban on Jewish emigration from Morocco, Israel launches Operation Yachin to help Moroccan Jews make aliyah via France or Italy. By the operation’s end in 1964, more than 97,000...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, and a gladiator barracks known as the Caserma dei...

Trapped in Nazi Germany, Marion Blumenthal Lazan and her family sought refuge in Holland, only to be captured and sent to the Westerbork transit camp and later the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her 1996 memoir, “Four Perfect Pebbles,”...

(JTA) — Eighty-six years ago this week, a series of pogroms took place in Germany and Austria. More than 1,000 synagogues were burned, their pews destroyed; sacred Torah scrolls and holy books were set aflame. More than 7,000 Jewish businesses were...

Have you visited the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum recently? If so, the museum wants to learn more about your experience. In partnership with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Skokie Museum, the St. Louis museum is conducting...

After 10 years on display at Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, a document penned by James Madison linking Jewish financier Haym Salomon to the American Revolution is now for sale. The document, a sheet from the ledger...

In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered.  According to the museum’s dramatic claim, the tiny book is a relic of an 8th-century civilization...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Hitler is, once again, trending on TikTok. Speeches given by the Nazi Führer, translated into English and read...

In a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in March of 2024, three of the last surviving members of the Ghost Army received the Congressional Gold Medal. Among them were 100-year-old Bernard Bluestein from Illinois and 100-year-old Seymour Nussenbaum from New...

The legend of Masada is etched into Jewish lore: For years, the story goes, ancient Jews held out in a desert fortress against their Roman foes. New research from Tel Aviv University has revealed that the siege on Masada in 72 CE, long believed to have...

“When a lady whistled at you on Allen Street, you knew she’s not calling you to a minyan!” So goes a particularly illuminating quote from a lawyer named Jonah Goldstein, describing just how derelict life on the Lower East Side was in July 1913,...