12,000-year-old spinning machine uncovered in northern Israel
A 12,000-year-old tool used to spin fibers into yarn has been identified in an archaeological dig in northern Israel, highlighting humanity’s prehistoric drive for innovation, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Wednesday.
The discovery...
Only Shoah museum in Iberia commemorates ‘Night of Broken Glass’
The Oporto Jewish community in Portugal, one of the strongest in Europe, commemorated the anniversary of Kristallnacht at its Holocaust Museum on Nov. 7.
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, marks the night of...
Leonid Pasternak, Father of Boris, Wrestled with his Jewishness
Leonid Pasternak, a painter and professor at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a master of portraiture and book illustrations, went down in history in the shadow of his son Boris, a...
Still learning of liberators, all these years later
Like many children of survivors, Bernice Lerner has spent most of her life ruminating on the Holocaust and writing about big questions. How was the Holocaust allowed to occur? What is the connection between...
Their Stories Foundation to create films about the Holocaust
Their Stories Foundation is a new nonprofit organization whose mission is to create films that tell stories of the Holocaust and related topics, as well as to educate future generations about this traumatic time...
New York exhibition to re-create Anne Frank’s annex
Anne Frank House)
The Anne Frank House, one of the most visited historical sites in Europe, announced the upcoming opening of “Anne Frank The Exhibition” in New York City. For the first time in history, it will...
With eyes on winning war, building third Jewish Temple, Ark replica shown in Jerusalem
Areplica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred vessel that was the First Temple’s central fixture, was displayed in Jerusalem on Sunday evening,...
Museum to open Southern Jewish Family Research Center
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) in New Orleans will cut the ribbon on its new Southern Jewish Family Research Center (The Center) on Nov. 7. It is the first major expansion...
Chabad rabbis give Netanyahu Chassidic text printed in Lebanon
In a symbolic move on Tuesday, a delegation of Chabad-Lubvitch rabbis presented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an early work of Chassidic philosophy by the first Chabad rabbi printed in various places in...
Ethiopian Jewish holy books digitized in Jerusalem
A collection of rare holy books and manuscripts from the Ethiopian Jewish community written in Ge’ez, an ancient South Semitic language sometimes referred to as Classical Ethiopic, have been digitized and will be available online, the...