Mandy Patinkin Headlines San Diego’s ‘JFest’ June 4
Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Balboa Theatre on Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. This powerful...
Seeking a world record with a pretty big twist
Members of the New York Jewish community are hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the lengthiest challah after making a 35-foot-long braided bread and submitting proof of their results to the organization...
UN hosts photographic exhibit to Shoah survivors
A collection of photos culled from a worldwide tribute to Holocaust survivors was held at U.N. Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, three days before the annual observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on...
Israeli-made ‘Letter to a Pig’ nominated for Academy Award
“Letter to a Pig,” by Israelis Tal Kantor and Amit Gicelter, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The 17-minute film is about a Holocaust survivor who writes a letter...
Jerusalem library gets 45,000 Jewish manuscripts from Yemen
The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has received the world’s most extensive collection of Yemenite Jewish manuscripts.
The 60,000 items in the collection include notable pieces such as Judeo-Yemenite renditions of works by Maimonides...
Unearthed: 2,500-year-old silver coin from Kingdom of Judah
An extremely rare silver coin dated to the Persian period (6th–5th centuries BCE) was recently discovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation in the Judean Hills, providing evidence for the earliest known use of coins...
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
All roads lead to Israel
Zvi Kan-Tor, a retired Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is a sabra superman who grew up with a uniquely Israeli perspective on the Shoah and World War Two. Now the director of the Chaim Herzog...
Idan Amedi, ‘Fauda’ star, seriously injured in Gaza
The musician and actor Idan Amedi, 35, who plays Sagi in the Netflix series “Fauda,” was reportedly injured seriously while serving as a reservist with the Combat Engineering Corps in Khan Yunis in Gaza.
“We would...