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...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. 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...

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...

Before he became the father of Jewish comedian Paul Reubens, AKA Pee-Wee Herman, Milton Rubenfeld was a top fighter pilot who first served in the Royal Air Force, and then the U.S. Army Air Force, during World War II. After the war, he returned...

July 20, 1949 — Syria, Israel Sign Armistice Israel signs an armistice with Syria, the last of four Arab nations to sign such agreements at the end of the War of Independence. Israel signed agreements with Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan before opening negotiations...

Roseanne Barr, the controversial Jewish comedian and former star of the working-class family sitcom Roseanne, denied the Holocaust and espoused other conspiracy theories on a recent episode of the podcast “This Past Weekend” hosted by comedian...

More than a century before the first emails and texts were sent electronically, postcards were a very popular way of communicating. The first postcards became available with the advancement of photography, and the years between 1890 and 1915 are considered...

My friend Katya was recently helping Rebekah organize her home. As part of her process, Katya asks about various objects and how people feel when they are in their presence. She then brings to their attention how objects can affect their lives. Upon...

Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, died last week at the age of 92. Ellsberg’s parents were of Russian Jewish descent, but they had embraced Christian Science and raised him in that...

(JTA) — One spring morning in 1934, two little girls followed their mothers to a corner grocery store in Amsterdam. The mothers, hearing each other speak German to their daughters, discovered they were both Jewish refugees who had recently fled Nazi...

June 15, 1970 — Refuseniks Are Arrested Before Stealing Plane A plot to steal a commercial aircraft to escape the Soviet Union is foiled when 12 dissidents are arrested at Leningrad’s Smolnoye Airport just before boarding the plane. Four others are...