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Acknowledging these options would have undermined the exhibit’s theme of a weak, almost helpless Roosevelt who supposedly had no choice but to follow – rather than lead – public opinion.
The fascinating story about how the name “Israel” came to be written on the document signed by Truman recognizing the new Jewish state is broadly known, but few know that the handwriting on that historic document is Elath’s.
This week’s question is: “Is enrolling in a secular college ever appropriate in today’s day and age?”
By Sandy Eller
Somehow Chai Lifeline is there, with food going to the home and the hospital, volunteers coming to the hospital to play with the kids, and iPads showing up out of nowhere to keep them busy.
Though a vicious civil war divided nationalist Ukrainians, Bolsheviks, and anti-Bolsheviks, they were somehow able to unite in committing atrocities against Ukraine’s one million Jews.
So much of our clothing, accessories and technological paraphernalia seem to define us and what we believe and value spiritually – yet, it should be the other way around.
A great champion of Israel throughout his professional life, Robert F. Kennedy supported Jews and the Jewish State from an early age. While a student at Harvard, he dared to challenge Father Leonard Feeney, an influential Jesuit priest and Jew-baiting demagogue who had written that it is impossible “for an individual Jew to scrap his […]
This Friday, November 9, marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. To commemorate this tragic date – the beginning of European Jewry’s destruction – The Jewish Press asked six German Jews what they remember of that night and the following morning. The whole shul [in Frankfurt] was up in flames. Not only that, across the […]
By Yaffa Ganz
Every family has its own mix and, as the family grows, the mix becomes richer and more varied. Like my grandsons.
People from various communities in the Diaspora are asking me to amend the prayer for the well-being of the state and its leaders.
This weekend, over 3,000 Lubavitch shluchim will gather in Crown Heights for the annual Kinus Hashluchim (also known as the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim).
By Sandy Eller
It is important for each of us to remember the obstacles we have faced and to remember with gratitude how we have managed to triumph over each one.
You signed up for a cause, and you can figure it out. Keep the image of that beautiful boy in your head and remember why you signed up. Remember the cause.
Gush was among the first Hesder yeshivas. In fact, it was among the first dati leumi yeshivas, period.
In one of the great ironies of Jewish history, the much-beloved Israeli national anthem was written by Naftali Herz Imber (1856-1909), a complex and deeply flawed vagabond, drunkard, and buffoon known as “the King of Jewish Bohemia in America.” Imber, who was born into a strictly Orthodox chassidic family in Galici, was deemed an ilui […]
The United States Postal Service is compensated for servicing these mails through annual tax-funded appropriations; in other words, you, the citizen, are paying for it.
We are called Yehudim as our essence is one of giving thanks.
Jewish women made their mark in education, welfare for the poor, and care for orphans, sometimes even manipulating public policy.
Nonetheless, to his political enemies – and there were many – his very name was an anathema.
Can Staten Island ever become a bustling Jewish neighborhood like Boro Park?
What sets this program apart from other similar programs is that its creators work to ensure that the curriculum stays relevant.
By Yaffa Ganz
Personally, I believe scarves are more modest and appropriate headgear for Jewish women, but what to do? I’m a staunch wig person myself.
At a time when Maryland Jews lacked even the most basic civil rights, including the right to vote, Reuben Etting (1762-1848) joined many Colonial American Jews in assuming the responsibilities of full citizenship by enlisting and fighting in the Revolutionary Army. After serving as an officer during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794-95, he joined the […]
The “Einstein letter” to which Teller refers is undoubtedly one of the most important and consequential letters in human history.
By Deborah Katz
Seeing the Jews so doomed, it was only natural to feel deep compassion, and from a humanitarian standpoint, to be impelled to help them.
Our music programs are designed to give children an unforgettable year that will help them develop in every area of their lives.
By dvora
The most popular way of understanding kiddush Hashem is as any action you choose to do that brings honor and glory to G-d in the eyes of those around you.
The Jewish spirit lives in every branch of life and the Jewish heart palpates everywhere.
In honor of Sukkos, The Jewish Press decided to feature pictures of six of the winning designs.
The rights Rosen won for Jews included the right to emigrate, and he oversaw a tremendous exodus of some 400,000 Romanian Jews to Eretz Yisrael and elsewhere.
In Levy’s drawing, the children do not seem particularly enamored by having a chicken waived over their heads, as the boy seems to be shielding his eyes and the little girl seems to be recoiling in horror.
Asked what her reaction was to winning, Goldzal said, “I was so happy…because it showed people that eating kosher can be just as exciting and delicious.”
By Sandy Eller
She found knotting a head scarf in a novel way or weaving multiple scarves together to be a creative outlet, one that she enjoyed and had strangers stopping her and asking her to share her techniques.
Broadly heralded as the contemporary embodiment of the Maccabees, some 30,000 Jewish volunteers from Eretz Yisrael served with the British Army during World War II, and more than 700 were killed in active duty.
If a fish has scales as a juvenile, but lacks them as an adult, is it kosher?
By Deborah Katz
The 6th of September marks the 78th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Dunera – a British passenger ship – into Sydney, Australia with 2,542 people on board. One of them was Walter Kaufmann. Walter was born on January 24, 1924 to a Polish-Jewish woman (Rachela Schmeidler) who gave him up for adoption at […]
By J. Fried
Everyone deserves to have food on the table and a festive meal to celebrate the holiest of days.
I slowly began to realize that my grandfather’s story did not follow the typical plot of a Holocaust survivor’s account.
Except in extremely northern locales, the sky is dark and filled with stars well before the time that people claim is tzeit ha’kochavim according to Rabbenu Tam.
In the 1920s and ‘30s, illustrious European rabbis infused Tannersville with an aura of Torah and holiness.
By Sandy Eller
“When you realize that you are the one carrying them and taking their tefillos to the Ribono Shel Olam, that shift puts everything into perspective.”
However, the main target in Lauder’s piece was “the Orthodox,” who he paints with one brush, as if there are not huge differences within Israel’s vibrant modern Orthodox, nationalist religious Zionist and charedi communities.
Even before the Renaissance, the meager scattering of sources that reveal the Italki experience suggest that Jewish influence was alive and well on the peninsula.
Sempo Sugihara, the Japanese consul, on his own initiative, decided to reverse a long standing policy of the Japanese government which had closed its country’s doors to Jews.
By Sandy Eller
Because only 100 passengers from any one ship are allowed on shore at any one time, visitors to the Frozen Continent will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities during its mildest time of year when temperatures average approximately 34 degrees.
This protest became the first time in Israeli history that demonstrators interrupted a Knesset session seeking to overturn a democratically made Knesset decision.
Some Rishonim write that one may speak lashon hara to prevent potential damage or injury.
One mitzvah led to another mitzvah as I volunteered at Friendly Visiting For Holocaust Survivors, a program of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into; I had joined a Holocaust family and jumped through the rabbit hole.
I desperately want [my wife] and I to grow old together, to be with my family and friends, and to watch my grandchildren grow up,"
His multi-lingual immigrant community, a paradigm of the American melting pot (including Russian Jews), provided a virtual cornucopia of languages, dialects, accents, intonations, and vernaculars that supplied a rich and abundant source of material for the prospective voice actor.
By Batya Jacobs
At the Rammon crater, I looked down and saw all those different coloured layers. I tried to imagine myself living in the time of each layer.
Within the last decade, noted Rabbi Fass, the trend in aliyah has been toward younger, single olim, ages 18 to 30, who are not necessarily coming to Israel for ideological or religious reasons.
Interestingly, among the unreleased hostages were Rav Yitzchak Hutner, the former Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Berlin in New York and author of Pachad Yitzchak, and members of his family, who were on their way from Israel back to America.
By Ann Goldberg
Most of the Jews could have been saved if the government had really wanted to protect them.
Menahem Mendel Beilis (1874-1934) was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in the “Beilis Affair,” an infamous Russian anti-Semitic trial reminiscent of the better-known Dreyfus Affair. The case was unusual in that this particular blood libel – the fabrication that originated in Western Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries claiming that Jews murdered […]
By Sandy Eller
Renewal never recruits potential donors, but when calls come in from those contemplating kidney donation, they answer questions and put callers in touch with previous givers.
His ultimate goal was to ensure that every young man would benefit from our mesorah in order to ensure the continuity of Am Yisrael, the revival of Torah learning.
Watch what you think. Negative produces negative, and positive does the same.
Dreyfus was one of some 50,000 attendees at Zola’s funeral in the Montmartre Cemetery. He remained deeply grateful to Zola and apparently never forgot his benefactor.
That Freud was Jewish is universally recognized. Not as well known is his strong and proud self-identification as a Jew. Freud was also very interested in Jewish history and, in his final and perhaps most controversial work, Moses and Monotheism (published in 1939), he engages in an intriguing attempt to apply psychoanalytic principles to the […]
Through a series of expulsions, forced conversions and general violence, European Jewry looked eastward, particularly towards Poland and Lithuania for respite.
By Libi Astaire
Why, though, was our remembrance not confined to the Kinot of Tisha B’Av, when we recall other tragedies? What was unique about the Crusades?
One of the most colorful, albeit largely unknown, characters in contemporary Jewish history is Morris (Moishe) Abraham “Two-Gun” Cohen (1887-1970), a.k.a. “the uncrowned Jewish king of China.” Cohen was a Jewish adventurer who, as aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and the only Jewish major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, played an influential role in both […]
The surviving five percent of Lithuanian Jewry owe their lives to the small number of heroic people who saved them.
By Libi Astaire
Hoping to thwart the impending danger, French Jews provided soldiers with food and supplies
By Yaffa Ganz
I am a firm believer that the three greatest forms of ammunition in our arsenal are truth, tefillah and emunah.
“You have to ask a reliable kosher agency who stands behind the ‘K’ on the product,” said Rabbi Moshe Berger, operations manager at the Orthodox Rabbinical Board.
Einstein once declared that while Beethoven “created” his music, Mozart's “was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.”
Sousa’s respect and affection for Liebling may explain why, for his time, the fiercely patriotic bandleader had a rather enlightened view of Jewish immigrants to the United States.
They could view articles of Eastern craftsmanship, including Hebron glassware, Jerusalem pottery, Nazareth lace, Palestinian olive wood, and other locally manufactured products, including soap from the renowned Shemen company.
There are two types of chalav Yisrael farms. One is dedicated full-time to chalav Yisrael service. The second type of farm provides chalav Yisrael milk on a per-need basis.
Today, both synagogues serve the entire Upper West Side community, as do so many of the other amazing other synagogues of this incredibly vibrant and competitive neighborhood.
By Sandy Eller
Over time, JScreen has expanded its testing panel and now can detect 226 diseases that are prevalent in the Jewish community, said Hillary Kener, director of national outreach and marketing for JScreen.
“I perform a show that I would not be ashamed for my rav to see, but I’m sure there are always going to be people that feel I pushed it too far.”
Zionist leader, Yiddishist, journalist, and Jewish theoretician and philosopher Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937), who sometimes used the pseudonyms “Mattisyahu Ascher” or “Mathias Acher,” is one of the most important Zionists you probably never heard of. He is most famous for coining the terms "Zionism" (in 1890) and “political Zionism” (in 1892). His life, which was one […]
Turkish Jews and Muslims would flock to her door with bribes or requests for her to exert her influence with the royals.
By Alan Zeitlin
Getting shot at is tough to describe. In the moment, you revert back to your training. You do what you were taught to do. You don’t really think about it. You just react.
Though Roth passionately rejected categorization as a “Jewish-American writer,” it is indisputable that a primary focus of his work was to brazenly, even defiantly, explore American life through a distinctly Jewish lens.
By Yaffa Ganz
Our first morning, we awoke to bright yellow sunlight and the sound of birdsong.
It added that Jews had the right to “free access to the Western Wall for the purpose of devotions at all times.”
Despite the difficult conditions in Shanghai, and the oppressive climate, they lived a “normal” life.
Yet he argued that while Zionism was an important cause in the aftermath of the Holocaust, it had become irrelevant – indeed, it was now a “regressive ideology” – because, he claimed, there was no longer any foreseeable threat of anti-Semitism.
By Sandy Eller
Rabbi Avrohom Dovid Weisz was just 31 years old when he was diagnosed with ALS in 2005.
Around 1552, leading rabbis in Egypt issued a cherem against people using rabbinic judges not approved by official channels.
This correspondence stands as one of the most brilliant and eloquent presentations of Jewish history, and perhaps the grandest exposition of the Zionist right to Eretz Yisrael, that I have ever seen.
Power and influence do not come without consequence.
I love how Yossi Klein Halevi described it: "The image endures, in part, because of the humility it conveys..."
Today, in frum communities we are seeing many more Devorahs than Deborahs and Yosefs than Josephs. But it wasn’t always that way. When did this trend start? And what does it signify, if anything?
Pesach in Israel is extraordinarily special. You can actually feel the chag in the air. For days beforehand, everyone is busy cleaning and preparing for the holiday.
By Yaffa Ganz
During all this activity, I sat on the side and did what I do best. I worried. After all, if no one is worrying, how can anything turn out right?
Even the title of Catch-22 has a conspicuously Jewish angle: it was originally written as Catch-18 because the number 18 (“chai,” or “life”), which has special meaning in Judaism, was relevant to early drafts of the novel, which had a greater and clearer Jewish emphasis.
Best known for his technical mastery and emotional playing, Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) was one of the 20th century’s most distinguished violinists (as well as one of the wealthiest – in the late 1920s he was the highest paid musician in the world). He was also an eminent conductor, an organizer of music festivals, a utopian […]
By Sandy Eller
We now know that we have a captive audience who is listening and we have to drive that listening into action.
The elections to the Constituent Assembly, which twice had to be canceled, were eventually held on January 25, 1949, with an impressive 87 percent of eligible voters going to the polls.
By Yaffa Ganz
There are more yeshivot and students learning Torah here than in the rest of the world combined.
Weizmann’s role as a founding father of the State of Israel is well known; less known is his role as a scientist – specifically as a pioneering biochemist.
He points out that medieval Ashkenazic authorities never saw an olive. Olives do not grow that far north; they only grow in the Mediterranean region.
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