(JTA) – Newly uncovered documentation appears to confirm that Catholic convents and monasteries sheltered more than 3,000 Jews from the Holocaust following the Nazi takeover of Rome in 1943.
The papers, which have yet to be made public, were discovered...
BY RABBI DR. ZEV FARBER
• Published September 7, 2023
When the first draft of Deuteronomy was penned in the seventh century, Judah was an independent power again after a century of Assyrian rule. Optimism reigned. This is why the easily predictable but totally unexpected destruction of Jerusalem by the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 31, 2023
Nearly 100 years ago, a group of Jewish scholars and intellectuals who focused on the study of all aspects of Jewish life decided to ensure Jewish history, language, traditions and religious culture were preserved for generations. The result was the establishment...
By Emma Dent, Washington University
• Published August 31, 2023
Before Miriam Barr was an adult, she was a survivor. Born in 1937 to Jewish parents living in present-day eastern Ukraine, she was only a toddler when her father died. When Barr was four, the Nazis apprehended her and her mother and put them on a train...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published August 29, 2023
(JTA) — Claire Golomb was 10 years old and living in Frankfurt, Germany when, early one morning, there was a loud knock at the door.
Nazis had come to take her father away. She, her mother and her older sister soon fled to Holland, where they would...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published August 17, 2023
Aug. 17, 1898 — Russian Zionists Hold First Conference
A few weeks before the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, 160 Russian Zionists meet secretly in Warsaw, where organizer Ahad Ha’am rallies support for a Jewish cultural renaissance...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 15, 2023
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum maintains a powerful mission – to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to reject hatred, promote understanding and inspire change. Weaved within this mission is the responsibility to ensure that...
The National Library of Israel is making a small selection of some 466 rare maps and books of Israel, available to be seen online. The maps are part of a new gift received from collector Howard I. Golden. The collection consists of some 466 rare maps...
Beth Harpaz, Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published August 14, 2023
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Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn used a recent speech to blame Jews for their own deportations at the hands of the Nazis,...
(JNS) When a young man wanted to go study with a great rabbi in Poland-Lithuania, his father balked since there was no money for a train and thieves would surely accost the boy as he walked. Better to stay home and read the rabbi’s books, the father...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 8, 2023
What the Holocaust means to a person can change after a visit to the Jewish Ghetto of Lodz in Poland or crossing under the "Arbeit macht frei" sign at the main gate of the Auschwitz I-Main Camp. One's understanding of what Jewish life was like in Krakow...
