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The dedication of the Oporto Jewish community's new cemetery on April 25, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Oporto’s Jews dedicate cemetery five centuries after last one destroyed

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The Jewish Community of Oporto, Portugal, inaugurated its new cemetery on April 25. The ceremony took place on Israel’s Memorial Day and included a tribute to the Jewish state’s fallen soldiers. The event was presided...

Brown University project is digitizing 10,000 ancient Israel inscriptions

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A 1,500 to 2,100-year-old Hebrew text from Jerusalem refers to “Shalom, mother of the synagogue.” And two burial niche inscriptions from Beit She’arim in the Galilee, both dated 250 to 350 C.E., refer in Greek to “Sara daughter...
Historical marker in Knoxville, Tenn., for Roddie Edmonds, Nov. 12, 2020. Credit: Jrryjude via Wikimedia Commons.

Congressional bills aim to give highest honor to ‘Righteous Gentile’ Roddie Edmonds

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Both houses of Congress reintroduced legislation this week to honor the late Roddie Edmonds, who put his life in danger to save Jews during World War II and the Holocaust, and is one of...
David Caspi. Photo by Avi Kumar.

‘I can spit on the canal,’ radioed first tank to reach the Suez in...

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David Caspi still remembers the signal phrase 56 years later: “red blanket.” At the time, he could not have known that when he led his tank unit—Division 200—towards the Suez Canal, the conflict would...
Egyptian panel from a Torah shrine, 11th century with later carving and paint, wood (walnut) with traces of paint and gilt. Museum purchase in conjunction with Yeshiva University Museum with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 2000. Credit: The Walters Art Museum.

Rare manuscripts handwritten by Maimonides on display at Yeshiva University Museum

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Artifacts with a personal connection to this great Jewish luminary include a Mishneh Torah (code of law that revolutionized the study and practice of Judaism) signed and personally approved by Maimonides; a fragment from...

80 years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews

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Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in the sealed, overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto rebelled against their Nazi persecutors. Stubbornly clinging to a desire to die with honor, a small group of starving men and women, armed...
Esther Yaron speaks at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, at an event marking 80 years since the deportation of the city’s Jews, March 19, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

From Macedonia to Pardes Hanna

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It was 1943 in German-occupied Greece. The little girl with the curly blonde hair at the church on the outskirts of Athens was at the center of the Nazis’ attention. Reminded of their children back...
An image of Jewish life at the start of World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust survivors asked to record testimony with their families

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Some 100 Holocaust survivors and their families are participating in a new campaign of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) called “Our Holocaust Story: Pledge to Remember.” Seeing survivors with their family...
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (center) celebrates Mimouna at the Knesset Plaza in Jerusalem, April 12, 2023. Credit: Knesset.

Mimouna celebrated at Knesset for the first time

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The Knesset on Wednesday hosted its first-ever Mimouna celebration, welcoming hundreds of guests in a traditional Moroccan tent erected in the front plaza. The festive custom, held the day after Passover, was brought to Israel...

San Diego-Based Holocaust Survivor, 93, Returns to Auschwitz on Exclusive Mission

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“What kept me going was my belief in G-d and the hope to be able to be reunited with my family,” said Ben Midler as he recalls his harrowing experience as a child at...