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...
Scientists revive 1,000-year-old tree possibly mentioned in Genesis
A mystery seed dating from 993 C.E.-1202 C.E. that was uncovered four decades ago by archaeologists in a cave in the Judean Desert has been revived.
Nicknamed “Sheba” (according to Josephus, Queen Sheba brought the...
Soviet Yiddish artists and writers remembered
Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, the Jewish Labor Committee and the Workers Circle,
we present this video of yesterday's solemn gathering
טרויער־אַקאַדעמיע
https://youtu.be/Af6ppw_PExM?si=6XhFt2F63Qt-1JRt
In memory of the Soviet Yiddish...
Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London
In an emotional encounter, two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met last week in London, retracing their harrowing journeys through life.
Germany-born Kindertransport survivor Walter Bingham, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s...
IDF soldiers stumble upon World War I graveyard in Gaza
Israeli soldiers made an unexpected historical detour while fighting in the Gaza Strip when they ran across a well-kept World War I British military cemetery.
Adding to the surprise was that some of the graves...
A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day
It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organizations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. It’s long been clear that much...
Cardin honors diplomats who helped Jews fleeing Nazis during World War II
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event on Tuesday honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews...
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...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is different this year
As the author of two post-Holocaust novels and a former high school history teacher, my guiding assumption before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel was that the Holocaust was a unique event in...
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...