‘Shalom, Y’All!’ Museum of Southern Jewish Experience to open in New Orleans
Officials with the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) announced that the new museum will open in fall 2020 in New Orleans.
Exhibits will explore the many ways Jews in the American South influenced and were...
15th-century prayer book fully restored, put online by National Library of Israel
Restoration of the National Library of Israel’s renowned Moskowitz Mahzor has been completed with the manuscript online for the first time.
It was created on parchment in the 15th century by Joel ben Simeon, considered by many...
Madrid to open first Jewish museum following legal battle over building
Madrid will open a Jewish museum in a building that had been illegally occupied by members of the anti-capitalist Occupy network, the city’s mayor said on Thursday.
“This is the only major capital in Western Europe without...
The origin of East European Ashkenazim via a southern route
Two populations are mentioned in the literature as ancestors of the Eastern European Ashkenazim: German Jews and Khazars. A German origin is not demographically possible, a Khazarian origin can also not be proven and...
A new Holocaust memorial in Suriname
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, marked 75 years since the Russian Army liberated the notorious Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland. There were only about 20,000 people left alive in Auschwitz to be liberated....
Archaeologists unearth crate of historic Judaica items under synagogue in Poland
A wooden crate filled with Judaica items was discovered during an archaeological excavation in a synagogue in Małopolska, Poland, reported The Jewish Chronicle.
Archaeologists were digging a small test hole at the Old Synagogue in Wieliczka when...
Bible Lands Museum exhibits age-old Yemenite culture and heritage, and their contemporary connections to...
An exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem shows that the ancient people living in the southern Arabia region (present-day Yemen) were largely connected to the land of Israel, despite being largely isolated...
Auschwitz 1942: The story behind my missing grandparents
As a child growing up in the small English town that offered refuge for my parents in their flight from the Nazis, I was acutely aware of many differences between my own family and...
Yiddish radio show commemorates 75th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
די וואָך איז געוואָרן 75 יאָר זינט די סאָוועטן האָבן באַפֿרײַט אוישוויץ. כּדי צו באַערן די קרבנות פֿונעם חורבן און די וואָס האָבן איבערגעלעבט דעם נאַצישן גיהנום, האָבן אַ צאָל פּרעזידענטן, פּרעמיערן און דיפּלאָמאַטן...
Putin, Netanyahu inaugurate Leningrad memorial in Jerusalem
In Israel for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday for a ceremony to unveil a monument in the city’s Sacher Park...