(My Jewish Learning) - Tisha B’av, the ninth day of the month of Av (which month coincides with July and/or August), is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. Although a large number of disasters are said to have befallen the Jews...
This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission.
Sunday night, after Jews around the world mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem on Tisha B’av, CNN will premiere a series that — in so many words — traces...
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,...
Hadar Ben-Yehuda, National Library of Israel
• Published July 13, 2021
68 Second Avenue
At 68 Second Avenue, there is a restaurant in the basement floor underneath the drug store, known as Richman’s restaurant. This place is open a short while and for the past two weeks we have observed that as late as 2, 3, 4 and 4:30...
Back in 2014, President Obama awarded 24 Jewish, Hispanic, and African American veterans Medals of Honor they’d earned but never received.
Many on the list are already deceased—including a Jewish guy from Brooklyn named Lenny Kravitz, uncle of...
LORELAI KUDE and DAVID A.M. WILENSKY
• Published July 11, 2021
For most Jews, the entirety of Jewish belief about astrology is based on a single line in the Talmud: ein mazal l’Yisrael — there is no astrological sign for the People of Israel.
It’s not real, we’ve been taught, and it’s not meant for...
He lisped. He wore an intense and engaged stare in photos. And he knew just about everything.
Joel Kupperman, was the adorable child star who helped burnish the stereotype of the brainy Jew as a panelist on the 1940s show “Quiz Kids.”
“A fairly...
Air France pilot Michael Bacos, whose plane from Israel was hijacked to Uganda, reminds us that the anti-Semitism is a choice that the righteous can choose to reject.
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,...
