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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...
Israeli founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion declares independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Holocaust is not why they fought, say 1948 veterans of Israel’s War of...

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Many see the creation of the modern-day State of Israel as part of a historical narrative, in which Israeli independence was a reaction to the Holocaust. “The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the...
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...

A Survivors’ Haggadah

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During the first Passover after liberation, considerable numbers of the she’erith hapletah (the surviving remnant) came to the Munich area to celebrate in Sedarim in large and small Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) camps, and...
The Haggadah is read during the Passover Seder commemorating the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt some 3,500 years ago. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

This Passover season, stress the seasonings

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Passover is just a few weeks away; there are signs of it everywhere. Kosher-for-Passover products are prominently displayed in major supermarkets. This year, especially, traditional dishes can be flavored and spiked with never-before-available kosher-for-Passover...
Rehearsal for the 74th-anniversary Israel Independence Day (Yom Ha'azmaut) ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, May 2, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

New website lists events and resources celebrating Israel’s 75th year

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The new website “Celebrating Israel at 75” is a resource providing information about communal celebrations of Israel’s 75th anniversary in the United States. The site also features information about the founding of Israel, as well as graphics...
Some of the many kosher-for-Passover snacks on display prior to the holiday, March 2023. Photo by Faygie Holt.

Jewish shoppers struggle with highest prices in recent memory for Passover food

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A woman pushed her shopping cart down an aisle filled with Passover foods in a supermarket in northern New Jersey. She lifted a box of kosher-for-Passover soup mandle—a type of cracker—off the shelf and...
A sketch by Kyiv-born artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi in the new Ukrainian-language Passover Hagaddah. Credit: The Kesher Project.

Project Kesher launches first-of-its-kind Ukrainian-language Haggadah

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Project Kesher, the venerable institution that has supported grassroots advocacy for Jewish identity and renewal in post-Soviet states since 1989, has launched a first-of-its-kind Ukrainian-language Haggadah. Purposely designed to help Ukrainian Jews honor their...