Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 30, 2024
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is considered a special resource by a key group of educators: those who specialize in teaching about the Holocaust. The Midwest Consortium of Holocaust Educators organized a tour of the museum on Wednesday,...
By Kathleen Lees, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 25, 2024
Recent workshops at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum have a marked meaning for Klara Livshits, a native of Ukraine who moved to the United States in 2009. The ongoing summer event, “600 Butterflies: A Community Tribute to Holocaust Victims,”...
(JTA) — When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley could hear her father’s online Talmud classes through the wall between her bedroom and his home office in Brookline, Massachusetts. The 5 a.m. start time for the daily Talmud learning her father had...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, ISRAELED.ORG
• Published July 18, 2024
July 18, 1290 — England Expels Its Jews
King Edward I orders the expulsion of the Jews from England, where they had settled in significant numbers only in the 11th century. Despite gaining legal protections early in the 12th century, Jews suffer massacres...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 11, 2024
"June Zero,” a captivating historical drama set in Israel in 1961-1962, tells the true stories of three Israelis with different connections to the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the mass murder of Jews.
Each of the stories is told...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published July 11, 2024
You may not know his name, or his diary, but just like Anne Frank's written words, Yitskhok Rudashevski’s writings stand as a powerful testament to the voices of teenagers lost in the Holocaust.
Rudashevski was not just a teenager; he was a gifted...
By Dale Singer, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 8, 2024
ST. LOUIS — When Vera Emmons was growing up in suburban Chicago, the topic of family art treasures stolen by the Nazis was hardly at the forefront of her life.
She knew her mother, Gerda Nothmann, had survived concentration camps and made it...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published July 7, 2024
She was an adoring Jewish mother, a generous benefactor to her synagogue, Rodeph Sholom, and a proper 19th century lady who wore floor-length silk gowns.
But Fredericka Mandelbaum was also what her biographer, Margalit Fox, calls “America’s...
By Falk Kantor, Post 100, Jewish War Veterans of the USA (JWV)
• Published June 28, 2024
(JWV) -- During World War II a US Army P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft with the nickname “JEWBOY” boldly written on its side flew in combat against the German Luftwaffe in the skies over Europe. The pilot was Philip M. Goldstein.
Born...
Center for Israel Education, israeled.org
• Published June 26, 2024
June 27, 1967 — Israel Annexes East Jerusalem
After capturing the roughly 2.3 square miles known as East Jerusalem from Jordan during the war in early June, Israel formally annexes that area and some surrounding West Bank land — a total of 27 square...
Starting July 1, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will begin a new, free art workshop entitled, “600 Butterflies: A Community Tribute to Holocaust Victims.” Butterflies have long been a symbol of the children murdered during the Holocaust....
