If there had been a local Jewish version of the National Enquirer in St. Louis back in the 1860s, the tabloid would no doubt have devoted oceans of ink to Rabbi Solomon Hirsch Sonneschein and his wife, Rosa Fassel Sonneschein, who can truly be described...

This story was originally published on Feb. 28, by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. Tragic events now unfolding in Ukraine echo a history of Russian human rights offenses against Jews...

She's been called 'The Betsy Ross of Israel'. Passionate, adventurous, attractive, well-educated, a cosmopolitan world traveler and a gifted organizer, Rebecca Affachiner led an unusual life in the early 20th century, as a single religiously observant...

The number of COVID cases has increased dramatically across the country. Universities such...

As we wind down 2021, the St. Louis Zoo alerted us all that three of their elephants turned 50 this year. That made us wonder, 'What's so Jewish about elephants,' if anything? Turns out, there is plenty. Pearl, Donna, and Ellie are the three elderly...

(Israel Hayom via JNS) A synagogue dating back some 2,000 years is being excavated at Migdal in northern Israel, a modern town and the site of a large Jewish community in the Second Temple era. This is the second synagogue excavated in Migdal, and...

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,...

August 12, 1991 — Nasser Friend Yeruham Cohen Dies Yeruham Cohen, known for befriending Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, dies at 75. Born into a Yemeni family in Tel Aviv, Cohen was fluent in Arabic. He was an intelligence aide to Gen. Yigal Allon, and...

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. If you happened to be walking down the 800 block of Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn in the 1930s, you might have caught a whiff of horseradish in the air. From their Brooklyn apartment, two Jewish immigrants...

This story originally appeared on the website for the National Library of Israel. Repblished with permission. The life story of Dr. Rahel Hirsch could easily be the plot of a Hollywood tearjerker. This groundbreaking pioneer was born to a Jewish family...

This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission. Nearly six decades ago, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner joined Freedom Summer— an effort to register Black voters in Mississippi despite violent voter suppression....