In the late 1930s, as the global threat of Nazism accelerated, a number of Jewish artists fled en masse from Germany and Austria, seeking safe harbor wherever they could. “The Art of Exile: Paintings by German-Jewish Refugees,” an exhibit by The Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History that began in June, tells…
די פֿאָרשטעלונגען, במשך פֿון פֿינעף חדשים, וועלן זײַן די ערשטע פּראָדוקציעס מחוץ אַמעריקע און קאַנאַדע.
On Thursday afternoon, BuzzFeed News reported that the Department of Justice had sent a routine email to a large group of DOJ staff that contained a link to a blog post from VDARE, an online haven for white nationalist, anti-immigrant and racist pseudo-intellectuals. In response, Ashley Tabbador, head of the union the National Association of…
בעת אַ שיל אין בראָנקס הייבט אָן אַ גרויסן רעמאָנט, דערמאָנט זיך איין מיטגליד וואָס ס׳איז אַ מאָל פֿאָרגעקומען פֿאַר דעם מאַיעסטעטישן אָרון־קודש
דאָס בוך אינספּירירט עד־היום די פֿאָרשער צו באַטראַכטן פֿון דאָס נײַ די פֿילזײַטיקע קולטור־ירושה פֿון דער שטאָט.
This June, my family made the long journey to Colleville-sur-Mer in France to attend the ceremony for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. On the way to the ceremony, we passed through Norman villages adorned with American, Canadian and French flags, an homage to the brave soldiers who liberated them from Nazi tyranny. On the stage…
Since 2017, the Garrison Church in Potsdam, Germany has been in the process of being rebuilt and restored to its pre-1945 appearance. The 18th century church was damaged during an allied bombing in April 1945, and was later demolished on the order of East German authorities in 1968. But before those events, the church was…
A small temple over 95 years old will be closing its doors soon — but not before it donates its Torah scroll to a congregation in Montana, the St. Louis Jewish week reported. Temple Israel was once a community of 150 families that served southwestern Illinois Reform Jews with weekly services and a religious school….
Anti-Semitic beliefs are growing among evangelical Christians, the Washington Post reported. The shifting attitudes of such groups comes at a moment when Donald Trump is making the anti-Semitic claim that Jews have equal or greater loyalty to Israel than to America. Trump has also made it clear that he is taking cues from evangelical figures…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The leader of the Joint List of Arab parties said he would join a center-left government after Israeli elections in September, under certain conditions — a move that would prove historic. No majority-Arab party has ever joined a governing coalition in Israel, though they have backed left-wing governments from the sidelines in…
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