Jewish trove hidden from Nazis gives up its secrets
For decades, a confessional in a church in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius kept a precious secret: a trove of documents offering an unprecedented glimpse into Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.
The...
La vida del Aktor “Leonard Nimoy”
Famoso por su presentasión de un medio umano i medio Vulcano en el karakter de “Mr.Spock” en la seria titulada “Star Treck”, Nimoy viene de murir en Los Angeles a la edad de 83 anios. El...
My Old Kentoki Home
According to conventional non-wisdom, American Jewish literature started in a Lower East Side sweatshop and then migrated to New Jersey, where it has remained until Philip Roth’s retirement. Of course, reading this way necessitates...
2 Jews, 3 za’atar recipes: reflecting on the diversity and rising popularity of Israeli...
When film director and producer Roger Sherman referred to Israel as one of the “hottest food scenes in the world,” his colleagues laughed. It was at that moment that Sherman knew he had discovered...
Jewish Museum in Ferrara – an Italian story
A large building in the heart of Ferrara that hosted the city's prison until 1992 has become a museum dedicated to Jewish history and tradition. The National Museum of Italian Judaism and Shoah (Meis)...
How a Jewish Storytelling Tradition Is Reflected in Contemporary Art
In Judaism, the word maggid describes a centuries-old classification of preacher, a proselytizer who specializes in pointedly using storytelling for a purpose — to help individuals understand and explore their own spirituality. Theirs is a lens...
Why Jewish songwriters wrote the soundtrack to the world’s most musical holiday
What's the connection between Silver Bells, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, A Holly Jolly Christmas, The Secret of Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and White Christmas?
They were all...
Holocaust drama ‘The Camp’ among productions being presented in Boca Raton
Both current Boca Raton productions, "The Camp," a drama set in the Holocaust-era, running now through Dec. 17 at the Levis Jewish Community Center and the musical "She Loves Me," running now through Dec. 23 at...
Israel pulls out of Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in Germany over political conflict
Israel has pulled out of a planned exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Frankfurt because the German government would not guarantee their return if claimed by Palestinians.
The Frankfurt Bible Museum announced that it...
Italy Tell The Story Of Its Jewish People In New Museum
"The story of Jews in Italy is really an Italian story,” Dario Disegni said one recent autumn morning at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies.
Disegni, president of the National Museum of Italian Judaism...