admin | September 6, 2021
Many Jews who survived World War II in the woods joined the partisans, a vast network of Soviet fighters who remained behind the front lines after Germany broke its accord with Russia and launched Operation Barbarossa.
admin | September 6, 2021
By Anton Schneerson Babyn Yar. Two words are as short as a gunshot.
admin | September 6, 2021
Remember Baltasar Garzn (pictured below), the Spanish examining magistrate who in 1998 unsuccessfully sought the extradition from the UK of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator?
admin | September 6, 2021
A 700-year-old illustrated and annotated Hebrew prayer book that provides a window into the lives and rituals of Jewish communities in medieval Europe is expected to fetch up to $6m when it is sold at auction next month.
admin | September 6, 2021
By Sam GelmanCommunications Manager The renowned journalMegadim, which offers original analyses of the Hebrew Bible from top Israeli scholars, published its first Hebrew-English edition in August 2021 in partnership with Yeshiva University Press.
admin | September 6, 2021
For the first time in their young lives, Im taking my two children my 5-year-old daughter and my son, who just turned 4 to Rosh Hashana services this year. Even though Im certain its going to be impossible for them to sit still that long in the synagogue.
admin | September 6, 2021
As part of her capstone project at her Tel Aviv-area college, graphic artist Michal Shomer revamped the Hebrew alphabet adding a dozen new letters to make the 3,000-year-old language more inclusive of both women and non-binary people. She made what she calls multi-gender Hebrew free to anyone in the past year, and 10,000 have downloaded it from her website so far.
admin | September 6, 2021
By Samuel L. Boyd University of Colorado Boulder THE CONVERSATION - Over the next few weeks, members of the Jewish faith will observe the High Holy Days in the month of Tishrei in the Jewish calendar, usually in September and October
admin | September 6, 2021
Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun Im thinking a lot about hope and moving forward in really difficult times, in uncertain times, Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen said. Im also thinking about what are the opportunities, and how do we find those opportunities? Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen knows her words will carry a little extra weight this year during Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year
admin | September 6, 2021
Joel Charny, who's been a humanitarian aid worker for 40 years, talks to students at a camp for internally displaced people in northern Sri Lanka in 2005. It's one of his favorite photos, he says, "because this is what I did hundreds of times: interview people about what they were going through and what they needed for their lives to improve." Courtesy of Joel Charny hide caption Joel Charny, who's been a humanitarian aid worker for 40 years, talks to students at a camp for internally displaced people in northern Sri Lanka in 2005.
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