May 5, 475: The Talmud, completed
Rabbi Ravina ben Huna, known as Ravina II, head of the Jewish academy at Sura, a key center of learning in Babylonia, is said to have died on this date in 475. Tradition holds...
Learning Yiddish through Illustrating Itsik Manger’s Megile lider: The Active Mind and Creative Process...
am a lifelong learner. I absolutely love updating knowledge and skills and adding a few new ones along the way. The process of going from clumsy beginner to mastery (a process which never ends)...
December 27, 2010: Jonathan Pollak, anarchist activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands,...
Jonathan Pollak, an anarchist activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, was sentenced to three months in prison and fined 1,500 shekels on this date in 2010 for his 2008 arrest at a...
Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia files Chapter 11
The Museum of American Jewish History, which operates the Philadelphia-based National Museum of American Jewish History, filed a legal action in Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania over the weekend seeking Chapter...
Russia: New downloadable tourist guide to Jewish Kaliningrad
If you get to Kaliningrad, Russia — formerly Königsberg, East Prussia — you can now follow a Jewish heritage itinerary in the city.
Just a year ago, exactly 80 years after the grandiose New Synagogue...
$55 million to be invested in Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem
The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem has several projects underway at a total cost of 200 million shekels ($55 million).
The initiative seeks to...
September 16, 1614: Frankfurt Jews Expelled
Frankfort-on-the-Main, some 400 years ago...
The city of Frankfurtwas even then an important center of business and trade. It was famous for its annual trade fairs, when merchants from far and near came to buy...
‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and all-around genius of the Enlightenment.
His drama Faust opens with a scene that echoes the Book of Job,...
Jerusalem find dating back to biblical kings baffles archaeologists
An unprecedented channel installation dating back to the First Temple period was uncovered in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.
The excavation thus far has uncovered...
Only survivor of 6,000 Jewish children deported from France dies, aged 97
Henri Borlant, the sole survivor of the 6,000 Jewish children under the age of 16 who were deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942, died on Dec. 3, aged 97.
Borlant spoke often of his...