Central New York’s oldest synagogue to be sold and replaced by student housing
Members of central New York’s oldest Jewish congregation and the ninth oldest in the United States, Temple Concord, voted on Sunday to sell the 108-year-old building for $9 million to a developer of luxury...
Israel Forever honors Theodor Herzl’s ‘yahrzeit’ by inspiring the next generation
All across the world, young Jews are regularly told to be leaders—whether by their parents, their teachers, or their community peers. They are expected to inspire and influence future generations. Yet in today’s world,...
Polish organization aims to restore country’s Jewish heritage, building both bridges and awareness
Michał Laszczkowski, CEO of Poland’s Cultural Heritage Foundation, spends a great deal of time discussing Jewish law with rabbis at various Jewish cemeteries across Poland; in fact, it’s safe to say that he does...
Hebrew inscriptions revealed at Great Synagogue dig sites in Vilnius, Lithuania
Hebrew inscriptions were discovered for the first time since the beginning of the excavation project to expose the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, which was burned during the Holocaust and demolished by the Soviets.
According...
Belarus Torah reborn in Colonie
Editor's note: In the mid-1980s, Belarus was part of the Soviet Union sharing the mother country's long history of anti-Semitism which included medieval massacres and pogroms. The Encyclopaedia Judaica describes a militia attacking a...
Archaeologists find fabled Crusader moat outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls
Archaeologists have discovered an 11th-century moat just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls—the first hard evidence of a fabled Crusader siege against the city 920 years ago. Attested to in several historical documents, many scholars...
Bipartisan group organizes private tour of Holocaust museum for US Congress
A bipartisan group has organized a private, after-hours tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for members of Congress on July 16.
Jewish Insider first reported the upcoming tour.
An invitation was released on Thursday...
The truth about Jerusalem’s City of David and the lies about Silwan
A photo of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt on July 1 striking a thin, symbolic wall with a sledgehammer—a wall built to separate two parts of the...
Archaeologists announce discovery of the biblical city of Ziklag
The Israeli Antiquities Authority, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia, have announced the discovery of what they believe is the biblical city of Ziklag, the Philistine city in which according...
Archive smuggled from Nazi-era Germany acquired by Science History Institute
The Science History Institute has acquired an amazing collection of correspondence, books, photographs and scientific notes belonging to Jewish German chemist Georg Bredig, announced the Philadelphia museum on Tuesday.
The collection spans decades, from the...