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Enchanted by his immigrant mother-in-law’s rituals, stories, and incredible blintzes, Guthrie learned everything he could about the Jewish people...
Assume that at least one in three hospital patients will have some kind of diet restriction and educate yourself as to how best to support and promote their health.
It was a beautiful winter's day, but eerily quiet.
By Libi Astaire
The year 1648 was supposed to have been a momentous one for the people of Israel.
We must show them that being a true Jew is being true to one's people as well as to oneself.
Ironically, shortly before being assigned to his historic mission, he had requested a transfer to a combat unit to avenge his relatives in Europe.
By Rhona Lewis
They are trained to show all potential converts tremendous love and compassion. It's all part of their strategy.
Referring to his family, he wrote to Mr. Tress, “I don’t know how I ever can thank you for what you did [for] all of us. It is now over four years since I left Germany…
The designated escape route was for the children to cross into the Netherlands, from where they were to embark via ferry to England.
By Libi Astaire
In fact, you can barely turn around in Krakow’s Jewish quarter without bumping into a legend of some sort.
While advocating Jewish liberty, however, Jefferson simultaneously held Judaism itself in low regard.
By Yaffa Ganz
But it’s not just the siddur. All books in Israeli schools are to be revered…. and covered.
“We were able to bring together the Jewish community, regardless of level of observance,”
While he wrote only one piece of music directly for liturgical use, Hashkeveinu, which premiered at the Park Avenue Synagogue on May 11, 1945, Bernstein often named his works after Jewish themes and personalities.
For his 16th yahrzeit (10 Shevat), I asked all the grandchildren to write some memories of their Zaidie that stand out in their mind.
The Ritchie Boys were approximately 9,000 US servicemen who received their training at the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Maryland.
By Sandy Eller
The tragic Mendelsohn saga clearly illustrates the importance of clear pre-need funeral arrangements
Mrs. R. hurls the violin at the couch, screeching, “It’s horrible! I sound so horrible!” and again runs out of the room, sobbing.
However, many people who visit a therapist and feel they weren’t helped conclude that “therapy doesn’t work.” This is unfortunate because those people don’t get the help they could receive.
By Sandy Eller
The 18-hour event, which ran from midnight on December 23 to 6 p.m. on December 24, coincided with a project run by Yavneh’s middle school that had students memorizing the answers to 18,000 questions on the entire Sefer Bereishis.
Her life circumstances have never defined her or limited her and her positivity is just refreshingly addictive.
Despite having no Hollywood connections to speak of, Perez began the work of first learning how to write a screenplay, then putting all of his research into a script.
By Libi Astaire
During the Middle Ages Girona was one of Europe's most important centers of Kabbalah.
One can’t help but admire her many accomplishments, especially as the director of Head Start,
When Dreyfus was finally cleared and Zola returned to France, Monet sank into a deep depression over the sordid and disgraceful affair.
In August of 1945, US Army Chaplain Major Aaron Paperman was stationed in Rome, Italy, and sent a telegram to the Agudath Israel Youth Council in New York requesting aid for Jews that had been liberated. Though the war was over and the Nazis were defeated, the remnant of European Jewry continued to suffer. Bereft […]
By Yaffa Ganz
Our own contemporary Chanukah battle has become one of saving Chanukah from American culture.
She needs to rescue her fleshless memories, lest they flicker out and die.
By Jonny Diamond and Randy Diamond
Jonny would be able to say kaddish after all...
“It is a gruesome thing to ask every married soldier to visualize his complete destruction… It would be terribly destructive to morale.”
By Jodie Maoz
We wanted our children to view adoption as a natural, positive thing.
What follows are several excerpts, translated into English, to give readers a flavor of the late president’s beautiful prose:
By Libi Astaire
SA and Hitler Youth members shattered the windows of 7,500 Jewish-owned shops (hence the name Kristallnacht, or Night of Shattered Glass) and the stores were looted.
The remarkable Unger, a true mathematical Renaissance man, was a visionary in the field of mathematics education who also wrote numerous texts, many of which became pedagogical standards used by university systems across Europe, particularly in Russia
Litvinoff said the shul is just one project among several that he has promoted on behalf of observant Jews.
Bring home for the holidays was every GI's dream...
In Twin Books Corp v. Walt Disney (1966), a patent infringement case involving the rights to Bambi, the California court wasted no time in properly crediting authorship of the beloved children's classic: It is a very common misconception that Bambi was the brainchild of the world's foremost entertainer of children, Walt Disney. To the […]
“Rachel has cried enough,” Stern said. “Now it’s time to give her something to smile about.”
By Erica Lyons
While I envision the need to travel back and forth from time to time, my place is here with my husband and children.
Compelled to show his friendship for the Jews in a more concrete form, Califano decided to print, at his own expense, a million color postcards reproducing The Ignominy of the Twentieth Century and to sell them nationally for the benefit of Jewish refugees from the Nazis.
By Sandy Eller
Bigger isn’t always better. We know this from Pirkei Avos, which advises us not to look at the container, but rather at what is inside, and from the old adage, “Good things come in small packages.” While those words can be applied to a wide range of objects and situations, they hold equally true for […]
Another intriguing “Wyatt Earp Jewish connection” involves the long-standing mystery of the legendary fallout between Wyatt and Doc Holliday.
By Rhona Lewis
The Red Orchestra was made up of three different units. The Trepper unit was based in Germany, France and Belgium.
It is important to recognize that her efforts on behalf of rescue weren’t always lauded.
As he shut his piercing grey eyes and began chanting a portion of the service from memory, we could all sense he was actually transported back there through time and space – and the best part was that he was taking us with him.
Every year 13,500 children will be diagnosed with a pediatric cancer.
By Yaffa Ganz
We gazed at the Old City walls and wondered when and if we'd ever be privileged to enter its gates.
There is a rich Jewish history in this part of the world. Now the hidden customs are being revealed, as many seek to reconnect with their roots.
On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder created one of the most famous, and valuable, pieces of film and became forever linked with one of the greatest American national tragedies when he stood with his camera on an elevated concrete abutment as President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Exhibited here is […]
By Rhona Lewis
Upon meeting the Zionist delegation, General Wu, a recent convert to Christianity, said, “You are my spiritual brothers.
With the assistance of Mr. Tress, Private Moskowitz tried tirelessly to become an army chaplain.
By Libi Astaire
The pogroms of 1881-1884 were sparked by the assassination of Alexander II.
There are nearly 3,000 lone soldiers in Israel today; most of whom return to empty, lonely apartments.
By Yaffa Ganz
If I can't save the world at large, the least I can do is to try to save or improve my own small world.
Hundreds of thousands of people visit the house each year and are touched by the tragic story.
In comparison for the same year, there were 5,135 kidney transplants from a living donor and 10,015 kidney transplants from a deceased donor.
Jews who were considered, but not ultimately selected, include Woody Allen, Saul Bellow, David Ben-Gurion, Marc Chagall, Anne Frank, and Barbra Streisand.
What makes this diary so historically significant is that it is not just the private memoir of Dr. Seidman. Rather, it is a reflection of the suffering of Klal Yisrael at that time.
For the last several years, four Jewish schools in the Baltimore Jewish community have been expelling students who have not received their vaccinations.
By Rhona Lewis
On an ice-cold night in 1942, while taking part in a demanding Palmach training course in Juara in north Israel, Chaviva Reich made the treacherous descent to kibbutz Ein Hashofet to bring back some grapes for her colleagues and raise their morale. She was caught by a kibbutz guard, the grapes were confiscated, and she […]
Not as well known is that long before Anderson was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, she was refused lodging at Nassau Inn in Princeton during her April 16, 1937 concert at the McCarter Theatre there, and Albert Einstein invited her into his home as a guest.
“Your children, look up there at the top of the chimney. Do you see the smoke coming out?” She looked up, confused by his words. He laughed harshly. “That smoke. There are your children!”
By Jolie Greiff
In the face of evil, we can do acts of kindness. We can do good deeds.
By Yaffa Ganz
I do not suggest abandoning civilization for a pristine desert island or a hilltop in Judea or Samaria.
By Libi Astaire
After diamonds were discovered in South Africa in the mid-1800s, Antwerp regained its prominence as the diamond capital of the world.
Marceau suggested a dark reason for his wordless art: "The people who came back from the [concentration] camps were never able to talk about it…. My name is Mangel. I am Jewish. Perhaps that, unconsciously, contributed towards my choice of silence."
By Rhona Lewis
Anna Henriques, who hopes to one day head back to Jamaica, says, “Rabbi Raskin must be willing to respect what exists in Jamaica. The way to the future is to gently bring in the traditions of the past and at the same time embrace the idiosyncrasies of the Jamaican people.”
By Tzivia Emmer
It may be that seeking to connect with the past is rooted in the impermanence and impersonality of modern life.
Everyone in the kehilla can get involved, she added, and mothers can network with each other.
By dvora
On her first ever trip to Israel last week, popular radio talk-show personality and clinical psychologist Dr. Joy Browne, whose spirited broadcasts regularly attract millions of listeners across North America, paid a visit to OneFamily headquarters in Jerusalem in order to learn more about the physical and emotional challenges faced by victims of terror in […]
For those who couldn’t go off base, a personal parcel was priceless in its ability to convey a feeling of home.
By Rhona Lewis
With the danger of being discovered always a possibility, the partisans not only moved around in the forest, but also eliminated any collaborators.
Many properly cite Innocents as evidence that the Arab presence in Eretz Yisrael was so inconsequential before the arrival of the Zionist pioneers as to defeat any modern Arab claim to the land.
For the Jewish community, the influx of so many world-class musicians provided a tremendous cultural stimulus and generated great pride.
By Rhona Lewis
"Spot On,” our semi-regular feature on off-the-beaten-track places in Israel, takes us to the Golan
By Sandy Eller
"One minute I sing a song and they go back in time to their youth."
By dvora
Birobidzhan railway station sign is the world's only one spelling the town's name in Yiddish letters
“Can I wear tefillin in the bathroom?” That was the question US Private Nuchim Lebensohn wrote to Mike Tress, president of the Agudath Israel Youth Council, in a letter dated November 18, 1942. Lebensohn was not your typical young American GI. Polish by birth, he was forty-three years old and married when he was drafted […]
The nations of the world left the vessel to sit rotting in the water during one of the coldest winters in decades and with its starving and freezing passengers abandoned.
By Libi Astaire
If the people lacked for material things, the Pale was spiritually rich.
An avid and unapologetic eugenicist, Shaw suggested that the Nazis “make it punishable incest for a Jew to marry anyone but an Aryan.”
After camping out in tents for a year, the Maoz family needed some time out.
“Like other collaborative members, we embarked on this journey as an opportunity to build on New York leadership’s long commitment to expand and diversify opportunities for Jewish teen engagement,” says Melanie Schneider, senior planning executive with UJA-Federation of New York’s Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal
Several thousand Eastern European Jews had escaped Nazi death and Soviet persecution by fleeing to Shanghai, China.
Jewish Democrats did not entirely trust the son of Joseph Kennedy, a man broadly considered to be both anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi.
By Rhona Lewis
During the Second World War, a million and a half Jewish soldiers fought in the Allied armies, the Partisan units in Eastern Europe, and the anti-fascist underground movements in Western Europe and North Africa. These Jewish fighters won over 200,000 medals and citations. The Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II in Latrun, […]
French thinkers of the Enlightenment were generally not pro-Semitic, to say the least.
October 23, 2026 
