Eleanor Lois Heiligman, 77, passed away peacefully on Mother’s Day, May 9th, 2021.
Eleanor was born on November 9th to Isador and Esther Poe in St. Louis, MO. After graduating from University City high school, she went on to major in Spanish...
Jewish day school students, like these at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County bearing signs with the Hebrew word for love, are increasingly pushing their schools to explore how they can foster greater diversity, equity and inclusion both...
28th February 1973: Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins attends the SF&TV (Society of Film and Television Arts, later the BAFTA) awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He recently portrayed Count Pierre Bezuhov in the British television production of...
St. Louis artist Tsila Schwartz takes part in the first the Sababa Jewish Arts & Culture Festival in 2018. The festival, planned by Jewish Federation of St. Louis and the Jewish Community Center, is seeking artists for the 2021 festival, which is...
Photo by Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office
• Published April 7, 2021
As shown by the wreckage of an Egged bus blown up Dec. 2, 2001, the blast April 10, 2002, was not the first suicide bombing on a bus in Haifa during the Second Intifada. The December 2001 bombing killed 15 passengers; the April 2002 attack killed eight...
The family of Irina Khoroshunova from Kiev, caught in the web of the Nazis’ “Operation Barbarossa,” an organized rout of the Jewish communities in Soviet-controlled countries beginning in the summer of 1941. Credit: Yad Vashem.
Six of the Bernstein siblings taken in Ylakiai, Lithuania, February 1933. Top row, from left: Arye-Leib, Ida and Benzion; bottom row, from left: Rivka, Menachem and Hinda. They were all murdered in the Holocaust except for Ida, who immigrated to Eretz...
A plaque outside Jerusalem’s Haji Adoniyah Synagogue, created by Jadid al-Islam (“new to Islam”) from Mashhad in 1902, reads, “The synagogue of Haji Adoniayahu, son of Aharon HaCohen of the Crypto-Jews of Mashhad, dedicated by the Aharon Cohen...
The Duxbury Athletic Complex at Duxbury High School in Duxbury, MA on March 23, 2021. The Anti-Defamation League is seeking an investigation into the football team's use of Holocaust-related terms. ( Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
On Friday, March 19, Rabbi Yossi Abenson of Chabad Central West End traveled around St. Louis to distribute shmurah matzah, a special variety that is guarded throughout its production to ensure that it does not come into contact with water. The recipient...
