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...
Yad Vashem says it has identified names of 5 million Holocaust victims
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, said on Monday that it has “recovered the names of 5 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.”
“Behind each name is a life that mattered,” stated...
After the flood …
This week’s Torah portion tells the story of the great flood. The world had become corrupt, immoral and incorrigible. Even God’s infinite patience could not handle that generation. Noah had been building his ark...
How an Oct. 7 amputee refuses to stop dancing this Simchat Torah
As the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is being put into effect, the first step is returning the remaining hostages seized by the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. As...
National Library of Israel’s High Holidays manuscript acquisitions ‘vessels of time, touch, community’
This Yom Kippur, Chaim Neria intends to bring copies of two manuscripts, which the National Library of Israel recently acquired, to synagogue with him to study and to “deepen my knowledge” during the High...
Three-volume Lisbon Mahzor reunited at National Library of Israel
A rare 15th-century Portuguese manuscript, once divided into three parts, has come home to Jerusalem, so to speak, the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem says.
The Lisbon Mahzor—a decorated small-format manuscript on parchment—was most...
Israel unveils National Archaeological Database with some 4 million records
The Israel Antiquities Authority on Tuesday launched a digital platform centralizing all archaeological information collected and researched in Israel. The database currently contains 3,910,005 records, along with 964,393 objects, 1,223,552 images and 15,164 three-dimensional...
Cannon that sunk ‘Altalena’ in 1948 to be moved to Menachem Begin Heritage Center
Israel's Defense Ministry has agreed to transfer the cannon that shelled the Altalena, the Irgun cargo ship that the newly created Israel Defense Forces shelled off the Tel Aviv beach in 1948, to the Menachem...
March of the Living marks 81 years since Lodz Ghetto liquidation
The March of the Living held a solemn March of Remembrance in Łódź, Poland, on Aug. 29 to mark 81 years since the liquidation of its ghetto, one of the largest established by Germany...
A Galilean community where Ben-Gurion worked is restoring a storied past
Perched above the Sea of Galilee on the hilly road from Tiberias in northeastern Israel to the coastal city of Haifa directly opposite to the west is Ilaniya, one of the first modern Jewish...